“Yes, I want to, too,” agreed Babe, “but all the time I’m in the shops I keep thinking how the places I’ve wanted to see for ages and perhaps never can see again are all within a stone’s throw--well, within a ’bus-ride, if you like that better, and I decide to go sight-seeing with Madeline. But when you and Mrs. Hildreth and Betty come home at night with all your fascinating packages from Liberty’s and the Irish lace stores, why then I wish I’d shopped.”