"Oh, Els, wouldn't it be wonderful if"
"If what?"
"Nothin'! But some people run into the rottenest luck. Why didn't it come before. . . ." She checked herself before she said aloud "I married Billy." "Elsie, have you got any o' that rouge left, I'm awful pale."
"What you gonna do, hon?"
"It's one-fifteen. . . . Guess I can make the two o'clock ferry to Fort Lee."
