We'll ask Selina to go; she can
meet us on the other side. Come on, let's go, huh, will you?"
Trina still had her mania for family picnics, which had been one of the
Sieppes most cherished customs; but now there were other considerations.
"I don't know as we can afford it this month, Mac," she said, pouring
the chocolate. "I got to pay the gas bill next week, and there's the
papering of your office to be paid for some time."
"I know, I know," answered her husband. "But I got a new patient this
week, had two molars and an upper incisor filled at the very first
sitting, and he's going to bring his children round. He's a barber on
the next block."
"Well you pay half, then," said Trina. "It'll cost three or four dollars
at the very least; and mind, the Heises pay their own fare both ways,
Mac, and everybody gets their OWN lunch. Yes," she added, after a pause,
"I'll write and have Selina join us. I haven't seen Selina in months. I
guess I'll have to put up a lunch for her, though," admitted Trina, "the
way we did last time, because she lives in a boarding-house now, and
they make a fuss about putting up a lunch."
They could count on pleasant weather at this time of the year--it was
May--and that particular Tuesday was all that could be desired.
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