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I hardly dared to hope it would be so! I'm so glad I did it!" Cynthia turned on her. "Joyce Kenway! What are you talking about? It sounds as though you were going crazy!" "Oh, of course you don't understand!" retorted Joyce. "And it's your own fault too.
"What did you reply, Aggie!" asked the older Kenway girl. "'It doesn't matter how much, or how little, money we have, I told her," said Agnes, "'there's no lazy-bones in our family, thank goodness! For Eva told me that Trix's mother doesn't get up till noon and that their house is all at sixes and sevens." "Oh! that sharp tongue of yours," said Ruth, admonishingly.
As soon as she saw Ruth she began her tale. "What do you think, Ruthie Kenway? I just met Eva Larry on the Parade, and that Trix Severn was with her. You know that Trix Severn?" "Beatrice Severn? Yes," said Ruth, placidly. "A very well-dressed girl. Her parents must be well off." "Her father is Terrence Severn, and he keeps a summer hotel at Pleasant Cove. But I don't like her.
But when Uncle Peter Stower died and left most of his property to his four nieces, Mr. Howbridge, the lawyer, had come for the Kenway sisters and established them in the old Corner House. For in Bloomingsburg the Kenways had lived among very poor people, and were very poor themselves. With them, to the old mansion, had come Aunt Sarah Maltby.
Of course Agnes Kenway was bound to fall in love with this teacher; and Miss Georgiana soon knew her for just the "stormy petrel" that she was. Agnes gravitated to scrapes as naturally as she breathed, but she got out of them, too, as a usual thing without suffering any serious harm. Trix Severn annoyed her.
"But I won't be any funnier looking with no hair than I would be with green hair make up your mind to that." Neale slipped over the back fence into Mr. Murphy's premises, before the rest of the Kenway family came home, and the girls did not see him again that day. "How the folks stared at us!" Ruth said, shaking her head.
Although Ruth Kenway professed no high regard for boys of any description with Tess, she felt thankful there were none "in the family" she had to admit that the boy who had run away from the circus was proving himself a good friend and companion. Many of the good times the Corner House girls had enjoyed during the fall and winter just past, would have been impossible without Neale's assistance.
So the chief present the girls bought this Christmas for Aunt Sarah was a handsome sewing table, its drawers well supplied with all manner of threads, silks, wools, and such like materials. This the Kenway sisters had all "chipped in" to purchase, and the table was smuggled into the house and hidden away in one of the spare rooms, weeks before Christmas.
Agnes Kenway was pretty near at her wit's end. She did not know how to hold Mr. Sorber, and she did not dare to let him go away from the house, for he might meet Neale O'Neil on the road and take him right away from Milton. If Agnes could help it, she was determined that their friend Neale should not be obliged to leave town just as he was getting on so well. She wanted to consult Ruth.
Trix Severn was noted for her skating, and heretofore had been champion of all the girls of her own age, or younger. She was fourteen nearly two years older than Agnes Kenway. But Agnes was a vigorous and graceful skater. Since the green tinge had faded out of Neale's hair, and it had grown to a respectable length, the girls had all cast approving glances at him.
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