Yes, four-thirty had been a blow! "Where are we going this evening ?" It was delightful to be so free, she told herself repeatedly.

Friends?
They didn't need any friends.

For the present they had each other--enough! "Yes, and for some time to come!" But there always came to her a little qualm of uneasiness when her thinking reached this point.

How were friends to be found in this city?
"Oh, later--later--later!" And rising impatiently with a shrug, she went into the nursery.

The nurse had been so glad to get back that most of her old hostility toward Ethel had vanished.