Prospering, too, Brit understood.

The girl, Lorraine--Minnie had wanted fancy names for the kids, and Brit apologized whenever he spoke of them, which was seldom--Lorraine had written that "Mamma has an apartment house." That had sounded prosperous, even at the beginning.

And as the years passed and their address remained the same, Brit became fixed in the belief that the Casa Grande was all that its name implied, and perhaps more.

Minnie must be getting rich.

She had a picture of the place on the stationery which Lorraine used when she wrote him.