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`` I can tell you better , my dear , day after tomorrow , '' he replied . And that was all I could get out of him . `` The Happy Family . '' -- It is day after tomorrow , and Tom and I are going to take the noon train home . Our purpose , or at least my purpose , to this effect has been confirmed , if not created , by the following circumstances : Yesterday , a few hours after I had parted from Harry Goward in the blue writing-room of `` The Happy Family , '' Tom received from father a telegram which ran like this : `` Off for Washington -- that Gooch business . Shall take Peggy . Child needs change .