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October was a very happy month at Ingleside that year, full of days when you just HAD to run and sing and whistle. Mother was about again, refusing to be treated as a convalescent any longer, making garden plans, laughing again. Jem always thought Mother had such a beautiful, joyous laugh. answering innumerable questions. "Mummy, how far is it from here to the sunset?. Mummy, why can't we gather up the spilled moonlight?. Mummy, do the souls of dead people REALLY come back on Hallowe'en?. Mummy, what causes the cause?. Mummy, wouldn't you rather be killed by a rattlesnake than a tiger, because the tiger would mess you up and eat you?. Mummy, what is a cubby?. Mummy, is a widow really a woman whose dreams have come true? Wally Taylor said she was. Mummy, what do little birds do when it rains HARD?. Mummy, are we REALLY a too romantic family?"
The last from Jem, who had heard in school that Mrs. Alec Davies had said so. Jem did not like Mrs. Alec Davies, because whenever she met him with Mother or Father she invariably dabbed her long forefinger at him and demanded, "Is Jemmy a good boy in school?" Jemmy! Perhaps they WERE a bit romantic. Susan must certainly have thought so when she discovered the boardwalk to the barn lavishly decorated with splotches of crimson paint. "We HAD to have them for our sham battle, Susan," explained Jem. "They represent gobs of gore."