Edna Ferber: Fanny Herself

19. CHAPTER NINETEEN (continued)

But there was no mirth in Fanny's voice when she said, "Dear, do you think Lasker will give me that job? You know he said, `When you want a job, come back.' Do you think he meant it?"

"Lasker always means it."

"But," fearfully, and shyly, too, "you don't think I may have lost my drawing hand and my seeing eye, do you? As punishment?"

"I do not. I think you've just found them, for keeps. There wasn't a woman cartoonist in the country--or man, either, for that matter--could touch you two years ago. In two more I'll be just Fanny Brandeis' husband, that's all."

They laughed together at that, so that Albert Edward Cobbins awoke with a start and tried to look as if he had not been asleep, and failing, smiled benignly and drowsily upon them.

THE END