[speaker001:] Mary, please go to the door. I hear the bell.
[speaker002:] It's the mailman, Mother. Here's a letter from Uncle George.
[speaker001:] Give it to me... How wonderful! He's coming to visit us.
[speaker002:] When's he coming?
[speaker001:] He's coming by car on the twenty-fourth. He's staying from thetwenty-fourth to the twenty-sixth.
[speaker002:] Let me look at the calendar. Good! The twenty-fourth is a Saturday. Is he coming alone?
[speaker001:] No, he's coming with Aunt Cynthia and the girls.
[speaker002:] Mother, I don't remember the girls. How old are they?
[speaker001:] Your cousin Fay is fifteen. Rosemary is older than Fay. She's seventeen.
[speaker002:] Are they going to stay here with us?
[speaker001:] Of course. The girls can stay in your room with you.
[speaker002:] Mother, may we have a party?
[speaker001:] If you like, but now we have to think about meals and many other things.
[speaker002:] Prepare the list, Mother. I can go shopping. I can go to the small stores.Everyone knows me there.