Beauty--and Mary Blair w/ Direct link technology (A Romantic Novel)

Mother didn't speak. Of course, Father didn't really put anything up to her, but the general idea was there just the same. What he wanted to know was, whether a family like ours, consisting of one young married feminist, one eligible though unsusceptible young unfeminist, one incorrigible kid brother, and a large, sentimental colored lady, could be trusted to look after itself while the natural guardians of it took a protracted business trip into Canada. There was only one answer, of course, but Mother didn't make it. Among other things she didn't want to spend the money.