Nancy visualized an
apartment in a big city hotel, a bungalow in California, a villa
in Italy, and came back to the Gardens. Nothing was finer than
this.
"If we could only appreciate it!" she said again, sighing. "And if
we need only see the people we like--and if time didn't fly so!"
And of course if there were more money! She reflected that if she
might go back a few years, to the time of their arrival at the
Gardens, she might build far more wisely for her own happiness and
Bert's. They had been drawn in, they had followed the crowd, it
was impossible to withdraw now. Nancy knew that something was
troubling Bert in these days, she guessed it to be the one real
cause for worry. She began almost to hope that he felt financial
trouble near, it would be a relief to fling aside, the whole
pretence to say openly and boldly, "we must economize," and to go
back to honest, simple living again. They could rent Holly Court--
Fired with enthusiasm, she looked for her check book, and for
Bert's, and with the counterfoils before her made some long
calculations. The result horrified her. She and Bert between them
had spent ten thousand dollars in twelve months.
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