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Dundee echoed. "Well, after all, Sprague had been received by all the crowd before Nita's death," Penny retorted. "I think it was rather natural for him to think he'd still be welcome. He began to apologize for his uninvited presence, saying he had felt lonesome and depressed and had just 'jumped into a taxi' and come along, hoping to find the Mileses in.
Down stairs the quick feet pattered to the hall-closet where the little sun hat hung, always ready for the garden. Soon she was back, and held her chin up with great composure for grandma to tie the strings. The dear grandmother quietly laid her fine sewing down beside her on the sofa. "Is my little girl going away off by herself in the woods?" "Yes, miles and mileses!"
To-morrow is Saturday a half-holiday, of course and we're going to the Mileses' to have tea." "The Mileses'!" "Yes, you silly children; those dear farmer-folk who keep the dogs." "Dan and Beersheba?" cried Hetty. "Yes, Dan and Beersheba; and we're going to have a real jolly time, and we're going to forget dull care. It'll be quite the most delightful sport we've had since we came to Haddo Court.
Sprague had Sunday dinner here, and spent the afternoon, but Sunday night it was young Mr. Ralph Hammond. He come whenever she'd let him.... Monday night?... Oh, yes! She had dinner at the Country Club with the Mileses and the Drakes and the Dunlaps. Mr. Miles brought her home, because Mr. Sprague wasn't invited.... Tuesday night let me think!... Yes, that's the night Judge Marshall was here.
I went into the Mileses' house and had my dinner with them. It was a splendid dinner pork and really nice potatoes and the dogs sat one on each side of me. Mrs. Haddo, I want to go to the Mileses' again some day to tea, and I want to take Sylvia and Hester with me.
"So she had, but she said she changed her mind, had been blue all evening, and needed cheering up." "How did she get in?" "She walked over from her house, which isn't very far from the Mileses', and simply came up the path to the porch," Penny explained.
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