"That's ridiculous." "Well now I don't know whether it is or not." She was silent for a moment, considering it.

"But anyhow," she came back to the issue, "we have our hands on this money, so we'll get the suit.

You're in the army now, Ann.

You're enlisted under me, and I'll have no insubordination.

You know--into the jaws of death!--Even so into the jaws of Elizabeth Barrett Browning--and a tailor-made suit!" So Katie laughed herself out of the room.
And softly she whistled herself back into the library.