And we should have seen other things, too; among them the buggy, the lap-robe, the stove-pipe hat, and so on.
From that time forth, although the daughters and the neighbors saw only the same old wooden house there, it was a two-story brick to Aleck and Sally and not a night went by that Aleck did not worry about the imaginary gas-bills, and get for all comfort Sally's reckless retort: "What of it?
We can afford it." Before the couple went to bed, that first night that they were rich, they had decided that they must celebrate.

They must give a party--that was the idea.

But how to explain it--to the daughters and the neighbors?
They could not expose the fact that they were rich.

Sally was willing, even anxious, to do it; but Aleck kept her head and would not allow it.
She said that although the money was as good as in, it would be as well to wait until it was actually in.

On that policy she took her stand, and would not budge.