`` Well , '' said Stephen , getting up , `` I 'll run down to the office . And see here , Lexy . Day after tomorrow is Christmas . Are we going to celebrate it at all ? If so I 'd better order the turkey . '' Alexina looked thoughtful . `` I do n't know , Stephen . We 're short of money , you know , and the fund is dwindling every day . Do n't you think it 's a little extravagant to have a turkey for two people ? And somehow I do n't feel a bit Christmassy . I think I 'd rather spend it just like any other day and try to forget that it is Christmas . Everything would be so different . '' `` That 's true , Lexy . And we must look after the bawbees closely , I 'll admit . '' When Stephen had gone out Alexina cried a little , not very much , because she did n't want her eyes to be red against Stephen 's return . But she had to cry a little . As she had said , everything was so different from what it had been a year ago . Their father had been alive then and they had been very cosy and happy in the little house at the end of the street . There had been no mother there since Alexina 's birth sixteen years ago . Alexina had kept house for her father and Stephen since she was ten .
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