didn’t know it?” he exploded so loudly that the Professor came to, and paid attention.
“I am careless about these things,” Bambi murmured.
“What’s all this?” queried the Professor.
“What I can’t see is that if you had money enough to pay up my board bill, why you married me,” continued Jarvis.
“Just one of my whims. I am so whimsical,” retorted Bambi.
“Would you mind telling me?” begged the Professor.
“She’s got money enough to take us to New York,” repeated Jarvis.
“Thank you. I don’t wish to go to that terrible place. Of all the distressing, improbable places, New York is the worst,” replied Professor Parkhurst.
“Be calm, Professor. I was not planning to take you,” soothed his daughter.
“But what is to be done with me?” he inquired, anxiously.
“You are to be left the one sole duty of Ardelia, to be overfed and pampered until you aren’t fit to live with.”
“But you can’t go off alone with Jarvis.”
