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Updated: September 13, 2025
"I'll tell him to-night but I do hate to. I wish Doro would not be so over-generous," and she crushed the money in the leather case and put it securely within the satchel. "Come, Tavia, we will surely miss that train if you do not make haste," declared Dorothy for she could not understand why Tavia should not be more alert and more interested.
Brownlie, in spite of his protests, insisted on calling a doctor. Dorothy wanted to cry. She felt it was somehow her fault. If only Tom had not interfered! But of course he meant no harm. Yet she knew how Ned felt. "Oh, dear," she sighed aloud, "I did feel that something would happen!" "I'm sorry," said Ned feebly. "I was a goose to snap it so, Doro."
"It is pretty," agreed Dorothy, examining the dress critically. "Those pink ribbons are so becoming to you." "Cousin Nannie had it made for a party, so it ought to do for a picnic," Tavia said. "How do you feel to-day Doro? I have been thinking you look- -sort of 'peaked' as Aunt Libby would say. Have you been worrying about the explanation business?
"Doro, let me in! Let me in!" little Roger was calling at her door, and before she had a chance to finish dressing, her little brother had his soft white arms about her neck. "Now, don't you look. You can't see until I've given you a quart of kisses, then you have to promise not to cry." "Cry? What for?" she asked. "Cross your heart, first," he insisted. Then she saw that his curls were gone.
"Why don't you say 'stand splints, and not use that horrid slang," corrected Dorothy. "But she didn't stand them, she stood for them, with the other foot. You see, Doro, sometimes the much despised slang is the real thing," and with a tantalizing swish of her skirts, and a most frivolous toss of her head Tavia called "Ta-ta!" and dashed across the fields with the lunch box under her arm.
I looked up at the windows of the Casa Doro, each with its different sculptured ornaments; I saw old palaces rich in marbles, saw all the wonders which a student beholds with the more sympathetic eyes because visible things take their color of his fancy, and the sight of realities cannot rob him of the glory of his dreams.
The doctor, who guessed at once that some amorous adventure was on foot, promised to do his best, and so ingeniously plied his patient with drugs and potions that on the sixteenth Doro was out of bed, and busily doing gymnastics to test his strength for the coming campaign. Artois' invitation had surprised him. He had lost all faith in his friend, and at first almost suspected an ambush.
His suspicion of Doro, that this expedition had been undertaken with some hidden motive, was suddenly renewed by this sly and furtive movement, which certainly suggested purpose and the desire to conceal it. So caro Emilio slept very peacefully, and breathed with the calm regularity of a sucking child.
It did seem that the privilege of carrying freight personally was being abused, for old and young were simply bending down under the weight of the stuff for which they struggled to find room in the passenger coaches. "That would simply spoil my vacation," Dorothy reflected. "It seems to me each season evolves some new sort of hamper to be hampered with." "Doro!" It was Tavia! "Oh, hello Tavia.
"Tell me, before I shrink in your opinion," she begged, making queer passes before the mirror. "But say, Doro, do you ever take a look at yourself? I have to say you are simply splendid, and that's putting it mild.
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