Melvin and Alice knew they were taking a chance on getting paid for this expensive trip, but why not, this woman needed help and "It wasn't going to make them or break them," as Alice said. And besides, they needed a break from the business and Ted can handle everything. Good Old Ted. He was as faithful as an old hound dog and about as slow.
Alice packed and Melvin checked out the car and told Ted what to do while they were gone. Edie cleaned up Susan's coat and Susan took a bath in an indoors tub with running water. First time since she was five years old when they lived in that house that burned down. When Susan thought of this, it frightened her and she got out of the tub. Memories started to come back of her old home and her bedroom and the dollhouse that Daddy built and her car that she used to pedal down the sidewalk to pick Ilea her friend for a ride. I guess we were four years old. And all my dolls, my pretty dolls and then Susan began to cry.
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