We're often out of things, at home.

Last week, only, I upset the vanilla bottle, and then we were completely out of vanilla till just yesterday." She smiled again confidingly, and Billy tried to seem very sympathetic--though of a truth, to be out of vanilla did not at that moment seem to him a serious catastrophe.

"And really, I like tea better, you know.

I only said coffee because father told me cowboys drink it a great deal.

Tea is so much quicker and easier to make." Billy dug his nails into his palms.