Bradley and myself to stay in town!"
"I never go in the train, I don't believe I've ever made the trip
that way," said Mrs. Fielding pleasantly. And immediately she
added, "Thorn has nothing to do, and it saves me any amount of
fatigue, having him follow me about!"
"But what do you do with the car, if you stay in for the theatre?"
Nancy asked, a day or two later, after she and Bert had made some
calculations as to the expense of this.
"Oh, Thorn leaves it in some garage, there are lots of them. And
he gets his dinner somewhere, and goes to a show himself, I
suppose!" Mrs. Fielding said. Nancy made no answer, but when she
and Bert were next held on a Fifth Avenue crossing, she spoke of
it again. Hundreds of men and women younger than Nancy and Bert
were sitting in that river of motor-cars--how easily for granted
they seemed to feel them!
"Just as I am beginning to take my lovely husband and children,
and my beautiful home for granted," Nancy said sensibly, giving
herself a little shake. "We have too much now, and here I am
wondering what it would be like to have a motor-car!"
And the next day she spoke carelessly at the club of the smaller
bathhouses.
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