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"Girls, I don't suspect anybody," she said, after a few minutes of silence, "but just for the sake of formality, I will call a meeting for eight o'clock this evening and ask every girl where she was early this afternoon, for Marjorie tells me that she saw it herself at one o'clock."
There was a delighted gurgle from Marjorie, that ended in a fervent embrace of the two young women. "Oh, Jerry, I'm so glad to see you! I was afraid you wouldn't be back in Sanford before school opened. I saw Irma day before yesterday and she said she hadn't heard a word from you for over a week." "We didn't get here until last night at ten o'clock Maybe I'm not glad to see you."
'All right, let's, said Marjorie; 'Harry's in a fidgety mood and will be quarrelling with some one presently if he has nothing to do. 'I say, you fellows, cried Allan, 'we're going crab fishing. Come along and let's rummage out the lines, Reggie. We must be sure and get enough for all.
But you Americans born are quieter. When you quarrel you seem to take no pleasure whatever in it, for all I can see!" Marjorie laughed irrepressibly. "Oh, Peggy, I do love you!" she said. "It's true, I don't like quarreling a bit. It always makes me unhappy. It's my Puritan ancestry, I suppose." "Well, you can't help your forebears," said Peggy sagely.
But we do his bidding, and hasten north and south and east and west, just as he commands. It is a very magnificent thing to be a king " "Of course," interrupted Marjorie; "one can wear such elegant clothes, that shine and sparkle like everything with gold and jewels, and have lots of servants and " "No, no," corrected the beam, warmly. "Where did you get such a wrong idea of things?
So they were still sitting very comfortably together, discussing their mutual life they had planned as far as the tenth year of their marriage when Peggy descended upon them again. Marjorie flushed and made a faint effort to escape, but Francis sat immovably, exactly as if Peggy were not there at all. "Oh!" said Peggy. "We've made up," said Francis coolly.
But there is the tea-bell, and my little traveller is hungry, for she would not eat on the train and I tempted her with fruit and crackers." "Aunt Prue, I like it here. May I see up stairs, too?" "You must see the supper table first. And then Marjorie may show you everything while I write to Uncle John, to tell him that our little bird has found her nest."
The china plate and pathetic note last night had moved her strangely. Marjorie was in the beginning of things. What was her life worth if not to help such as Marjorie live a worthier life than her own two score years had been? A face flushed with the long walk looked in at the window upon Marjorie asleep.
To attain a residence at the Hall might not be so very difficult. At least it was worth the effort. She did not care who might be shoved out in order to make room for her. Meanwhile Marjorie had safely conducted her second venture in freshmen to the spot where a knot of girls stood patiently awaiting her tardy appearance. Helen alone was missing, having gone into the town on an errand.
"It's your party, Marjorie," said Miss Hart, smiling. "Your father and mother sent it all over, everything, even the candles and flowers. All we've done is to arrange it on the table. So you must sit at the head, as you're hostess." So Midget took her place at the head of the table, with Delight opposite.
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