"Oh, Alice! You--aren't going to be one of those--manicures; are
you?"
"I hope not, though there are lots worse things. A manicure can be
just as much a lady as a typist. But, Ruth, I have such news for you!
I have found an engagement for dad!"
"An engagement for daddy?"
"Yes. In the movies! Listen. Oh, it was so exciting!"
Then, with many digressions, and in rather piece-meal manner,
interrupting herself often to go back and emphasize some point she
had forgotten, Alice told of her morning trip with Russ. She enlarged
on the manner in which the moving pictures were made, until Ruth grew
quite excited.
"Oh, I wish I could see how it is done!" she cried.
"You may--when dad takes this engagement," said Alice.
"He never will," declared her sister. "You know what he thinks of the
movies."
"But he thinks wrong!" exclaimed Alice. "It's so different from what
I thought."
"He'll never consent," repeated Ruth. "Hark! Here he comes now.
Perhaps he has found something to do."
Footsteps were heard coming along the hallway. Alice glanced at the
table before which her sister was sitting.
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