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 "No chance laughin'! Funny as a crutch you are. Go on, Els, shoot!"

"I got baby things made up. Oh, God, Pete, don't you laugh at me!"

Minnie closed the door and hurried upstairs. She couldn't bear to hear any more of it. She felt sorry for Elsie though she hated her for the open acknowledgment of her sentiment. Minnie saw what was ahead for them but she thought it was none of her business to stop them. They were going to be married just because Elsie had four hundred dollars which Pete would blow in for her. They would move away into a rented flat for a couple of months and then come crowding home to her mother. But she didn't care. She wouldn't be there. She would marry Billy MacNally just to get away from it all.

That night she lay awake for an hour trying to make up her mind whether or not to tell her mother what she had overheard. She went to sleep deciding that it would be rather interesting to see what came of the marriage, so she said nothing.

Two days later Pete and Elsie were married.