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I came out in the train last night with a man I know, and he knows the Fayres and he says they're about the nicest people in Berwick." "Pooh! I don't think so. She's a prim old thing, and doesn't know B from broomstick." "There, there, Dotty Doodle, don't be hasty in your judgment. Give the little lady a chance." Later, Dotty and her father walked round the outdoors part of their new domain.
Very fresh and pretty the girls looked, Dolly in a pale blue linen and Dotty in pink linen with a black velvet belt. The great dining-room was large and airy, and the sunshine and sea breeze came in at the open windows. The Fayres' table was pleasantly placed overlooking the ocean, and Dotty's black eyes roved round the room in delighted appreciation of the surroundings.
I don't believe Mrs. Berry would have done it for any of us. But when Dolly asked her, I s'pose she made it seem all right." "It IS all right," defended Alicia. "Oh, I don't know," and Bernice looked doubtful, "I don't think the Fayres or Roses would like it much; I doubt if my dad would approve. But what Mrs. Berry says, goes." "It does SO!" assented Alicia, and then they all said good-night.
Clayton Rawlins came too, and Lollie Henry, and then they came in such numbers that Dotty couldn't catch all the names nor remember those she did catch. The girls had laid off their hats and wraps in the Fayre house, and the boys in the Rose house, as every means was used to have the party equally divided. At first they played games. The Fayres had a tennis court, and the Roses a croquet ground.
They decided to ask thirty of the Berwick young people, fifteen girls and fifteen boys. "I wish Bob could be home!" sighed Dotty; and Dolly echoed the wish for her own brother. But the boys of the two families were deep in school exams and could not think of coming home for a party. Of course the Fayres decided on the invitation list, but everything else was mutually arranged.
All right, I'll be friends with you. I'd like to. I think you're real nice." "So do I you!" In the cushioned swing on the Fayres' verandah the two girls sat. An artist would have stopped to admire the picture.
But etiquette demanded that the observers discreetly veil themselves behind the sheltering films of their own curtains. And so the Fayres, mother and two daughters, watched with interest the coming of the Roses. "Rose! what a funny name," commented Dolly Fayre, the younger of the sisters; "do you s'pose they name the children Moss, and Tea and things like that?"
So Dotty considered them both again. The room not facing the Fayres' was without doubt the more attractive of the two, though not much so. It had a large bay window, which was delightful; but then on the other hand the other room had an open fireplace, and Dotty loved a wood fire. She stood in the room with the fireplace, looking toward the next house.
So the trio separated and as the Fayres had an engagement for that afternoon the three girls were not together again until the next day. The next day was the day of the dance, but there was a tennis tournament in the afternoon, in which all the young people took part, and so interested were they in the games that no reference was made to the quarrel of the day before.
She went from one room to another, trying to learn the details of her new home; but ever and anon her glance would stray to the house next door, and she would wonder what the yellow-haired girl was doing. Dotty had been allowed to choose her own room from two that her mother designated. One was on the side of the house that faced the Fayres', the other wasn't. Dotty hesitated between them.
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