Severance were going to have dinner out.
But Elizabeth had always been one of the rare people who took pride in
"knowing when they were suited" and the apartment on Riverside Drive had
suited her perfectly for four years. She was also a great deal too clever
to abstract any of those fragile viands to take to her widowed sister on
Long Island--Mrs. Severance is so good at finding uses for all sorts of
odd things--Elizabeth felt quite sure she would find some use or other for
these too.
Ted Billett certainly found a good deal of use for some of it, thought
Mrs. Severance whimsically. It had hardly been a Paolo and Francesca
_diner-a-deux_--both had been much too frankly hungry when they came to
it and Ted's most romantic remarks so far had been devoted to a vivid
appreciation of Mrs. Severance's housekeeping. But all men are very much
like hungry little boys every so often, Mrs. Severance reflected.
Ted really began to wonder around nine-thirty. At first there had been
only coming in and finding Rose just through setting the table and then
they had been too busy with dinner and their usual fence of talk to allow
for any unfortunate calculations as to how Mrs.
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