"You have," said Pearl, who had never thought of all this before.
"Now this morning, do you know why mother wanted to get us all out of the house?" Antonia continued.
Pearl felt tempted to say that Mrs. Conway always wanted to get her out of the house, but she merely shook her head, and Antonia went on, "Because she is going to have an interview with my father."
"With your father?" Pearl sprang to her feet. "Are you sure?"
Antonia nodded.
"When mother is going to see father she looks the way I feel as if I looked when I'm going to the dentist--don't you know, you say to yourself, 'I wouldn't think twice about this if I were brave'--and then you think about it all the time. You know, mother doesn't think she tells us everything, but she really does, except about my father. And so, you see, if it's something about my father I always know, because mother's worried without saying why."
This reasoning seemed sound to Pearl. She felt that in order to fulfill Anthony's instructions she must go to Mrs. Conway's assistance at once.
She did not like to burst in upon them from the open windows