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It was almost too tantalizing to be endured. Mollie had to keep repeating to herself "A Guide's Word is Always to be Trusted," as she reflected upon that most provoking promise extracted from her by Prue. It was so long ago, surely a question, one question, would not matter now.
All stood rooted to the spot with staring eyes and open mouths. Before the first electric charge had subsided, Mollie Dane advanced and walked straight up to the confounded doctor, confronting him with eyes that literally blazed. "Liar! traitor! coward! Whose turn is it now?" Dr. Oleander fairly gasped for breath. The awful suddenness of the blow stunned him.
As she meditated over her disappointment Mollie turned the pages of the album, looking rather listlessly at the other children, and deciding that none was so attractive as Prudence, till she came to a group of three girls and a boy. She looked closer, then stretched out her hand for the reading-glass and looked again: "I do believe it is yes, it is Hugh and Prudence and Grizzel and Baby!
Mollie cast her eyes over her shoulder to give it an indifferent glance as it rested on the faded carpet behind her. "I wish Lady Augusta would mend things before she sends them to us," she said, with sublime naïveté, and then, at the burst of laughter which greeted her words, she stopped short, staring at the highly entertained circle with widely opened, innocent eyes.
There may be alligators, you know. I think I'm not sure but I think I saw something like the head of one a moment ago." Mollie pulled in her hand so suddenly that she flirted a little shower of drops on all in the boat. "Stop it! You mean thing!" cried Grace. "Oh, I beg your pardon," spoke Mollie with elaborate politeness. "I didn't think your sailor suit would spot mine doesn't."
"Better hurry up," suggested the Little Captain wickedly. "We'd rather not leave you behind, but if you insist " However, Mollie had not the slightest intention in the world of being left behind. With a gasp of mingled surprise and dismay she made a jump for it, cleared the foot of space between the dock and the boat and landed square in the middle of Grace's astonished and outraged lap.
There were electric lights with soft-colored shades and there was a colored waiter who seemed to move without effort. The forks and spoons for the different courses bothered me. I had to glance at Virginia to see which one to use. Once during the dinner I thought of the time Mollie Brubaker told Aunt Maria about a dinner she had in the home of a city relative.
When she opened the door he did not greet her as usual, but spoke to her at once in a low, hurried tone. "Mollie, where is Aimée?" he asked. Her tears began to flow again; she could not help giving way. "You had better come in," she said, half turning away from him and speaking brokenly. "Aimée is not here. She left London three days ago. Dolly "
"If you have seen it only once, it cannot be my real self," said Mollie quietly. She had grown, not red but white, as she listened to Jack's words, and her heart had begun to beat in an agitating fashion hitherto unknown. She felt as if somebody had suddenly dealt her an unexpected blow, for until this moment she had fondly imagined herself to be good friends with Jack Melland.
"Some day we must take our lunch, and have a picnic ashore. See the lovely Spanish moss hanging down from the trees. It's like living history over again. Just think of it, how Balboa came here and discovered the land, and " "It wasn't Balboa, it was Ponce de Leon who located Florida," corrected Mollie. "Don't you remember Flowery Easter?" "Oh, so it was. Well, anyhow "
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