However, I'll just make sure when he started.

I'm so afraid of some horrible accident--" "Well, you 'phone first, before you begin to borrow trouble," her mother advised her shrewdly.

"I know if you had laid down the law to me the way you did to Johnny, I'd stay away if it was the last thing I did on earth.

And Johnny--" Mary V called Tucson again, and mommie subsided so as not to interrupt.
There was a delay while the hotel clerk obligingly sent a boy over to where Johnny kept his airplane.

While she waited for his ring, Mary V went restlessly out to watch the sky toward Tucson.