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Show - 28 - CHAPTER IV "Hurry girls, If you want to go with Mr. MacCarthy to the Avenue." said their mother, as she called up the stairway to them. "He'll be doing some shopping for me at the market while you're at the matinee. Then all of you can go down to the station and pick up your father. Jim had been on a business trip out of town for a few days andwould be returning on the evening train. As the girls came clattering down the stairs Athena could not help noticing how they had grown in the past few months since they had come to live at Gaven House. Penny seemed to have lengthened out and appeared older in her white pleated skirt, Navy blue blouse and scarf loosely knotted around her collar. Hei/was was longer and her mother's passing thought was that it needed trimming. Even Vicky, who always had a little-' girl look about her seemed to have matured. Her hair was tied up with a bright red ribbon which kept the unruly curls under control for the moment. She loved vivid colors as evidenced by the bright red skirt and matching cardigan she wore. Nineteen thirty-eight, mused Athena. The fashions had certainly changed since she was her daughters' ages. Did they lack elegance now or was she being overly critical? "Well, if we're going to see the matinee and be out before papa's train arrives, we better hurry," said Penny. There was more than a hint of excitement in her voice, for they would be seeing 'Maytime1, a movie starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, the singing sweethearts of the 1930's. Some day she would sing like the beautiful Jeanette; of that she was certain at age fourteen. Tom was waiting for them at the door. The Studebaker was washed and polished. It's leather seats gleamed and the deep maroon color of its body |