And the answer had flashed into her mind.

"She's angry because Amy hasn't been in to see Susette." And Ethel had frowned.

"It's funny.

If I had been away three days--" She had gone back to her own room and began slowly to take off her things.

And a few minutes after that, she had heard a gruff kindly voice, a man's heavy tread and a glad little cry from Amy's room.
"Joe has come home," she had told herself.