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Show -235- back onto the road and sped axay. The Professor shifted his bag of groceries? then talked back doxm to the house. His xrife again opened the door for him. "I saxr you t a l k i n g , " she said. "What did he want?" "He invited us to a New Year's Eve party." "What did you say?" "I said you xrould c a l l if xre couldn't come." His xrife looked thoughtful. She had a table-knife in her hand with xrhich she had been spreading his sandxrich. "I xas thinking we ought to spend i t on the Peninsula." "But if xre're going doxm there this week -?" "I know. It just seems xre ought to be there one of the holidays." "She xron't be out of the hospital." "I knoxr, but - " She turned back to her work in the k i t chen, and he followed and set doxm the grocery bag. "It's just that I don't know what to do." "We don*t have to decide right now," he told her. " I t 's almost txro weeks axay." She didn't reply, but went on preparing his lunch. In a moment, she said: "While I'm finishing t h i s , why don't you get some wood? It xrould be nice having a f i r e when the children a r r i v e ." He said he xrould. |