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Frieda's eyes shone, and she began to feel better. Karl had evidently acquitted himself well in his course in motoring. He drove skilfully and easily, and they were soon outside the city in a pleasant country road.
Brubaker wrote to Miss Phillips that Frieda's baby sister was sick! So probably she'll come in a week or so." Marjorie succeeded in obtaining two plates of ice-cream and some cakes, and, holding them high above the heads of the crowd, made her way to the distant corner indicated by Ruth.
She said she would do anything for her, even to reading poetry!" They all laughed, for Frieda's English reading was distinctly lacking in smoothness, and her rendering of poetry would doubtless be harrowing.
The little old lady hurried into the house and brought out Kuchen and beer. Frieda was blissful. They spoke good German, and had visited Berlin. They were full of respect when they learned that Frieda's father was a Herr Professor, for they themselves had been simple tradespeople.
Hannah, on the other hand, having "slept like a top, the way you ought to in an upper berth," as she said with a gleeful laugh, and having made her toilet with the lucky ease which seemed one of her characteristics, was full of good spirits, and joyous anticipations. Winsted seemed very near, and her bubbling joy over the prospect of seeing Catherine added to Frieda's gloom.
She seized his hand and wrung it, repeating: "Ach, my heart could burst for gladness. My dears! My dears! But where is Miss Lyndesay?" "Miss Lyndesay?" cried Hannah, looking wildly about. "Not my Miss Lyndesay?" But as she spoke, some one bent down and kissed her mouth, rounded with amazement. "Yes, your Miss Lyndesay, and Frieda's guardian for the present.
Sure enough, there was Frieda's reticule, containing her address book, her pocket dictionary, her map of London, and her money. "Oh, what a bother what a family we are! Fr-Frieda!" "Hush!" said all those who thought the music fine. "But it's the number they want in Finsbury Circus " "Might I couldn't I " said the suspicious young man, and got very red. "Oh, I would be so grateful."
I think they really are the most beautiful girls I ever beheld!" A stranger might have thought that rather an extravagant speech, for Catherine herself was the only one of the four who could be called beautiful. But Frieda's face was unusual and interesting, Alice's sweet, though plain, and Hannah's the sort that always called for a second glance and a smile of pleasure.
Winding this circle with smilax proved a task just to Frieda's mind, and she worked at it with Hannah's help, while Alice and Catherine planned the "recreation" for the evening. "I'm so glad," said Catherine, stretching a little, "that we don't have to get the Rest ready for them. Refreshments and Recreation are enough to provide!" "You need the Rest yourself," said Hannah.
"American children are pretty bad, aren't they, Frieda?" said Alice mischievously, for Frieda's lips were set sternly. "Don't make her say so," pleaded Hannah teasingly. "She has made such a beautiful record." Frieda flushed a little, but slipped her hand into her pocket and felt there the shape of the little carved frame of Karl's picture and held her tongue once more.
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