She bought it.
"The moving vawn will be along in an hour," she informed me briskly,
and she was gone.
I addressed the kitchen sink bitterly. "Is there any particular
reason," I inquired of it, "why they have to buy our most necessary
possessions first? Somewhere in this city are the people who are going
to buy our lamps and end tables; what are they waiting for? I suppose
they're going to be sweet about it and let us have the use of them
until the day before we leave."
I was in a bad mood when Grant got home from work. He started to put
his lunch bucket where the kitchen table should have been. He put it on
the sink instead and asked me why I looked so unhappy.
"They bought our kitchen table and our dining room set and the bedroom
set," I wailed.
"For the price we wanted?"