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I guess it's about time for her first turn now, so the sooner you are off the better." "Oh, thank you, Stephie! I shall never, never forget your kindness," said Nora. She flung her arms impulsively round Stephanotie's neck, and the next moment the girls left the house. The girls now went straight to the railway station; the hour was a quarter to twelve.
You don't mean to say you are going to The Laurels like that?" "Have a bon-bon?" was Stephanotie's response. "You are downright rude. I will not allow you to offer me bon-bons again." "But a fresh box of them has just arrived. I got them by the eleven o'clock post to-day," was Stephanotie's reckless answer; "and, oh, such beauties!
Molly took up a handful of gravel and flung it in a great shower at Stephanotie's window. Both girls then waited eagerly for a response. At first there was none; once again Molly threw the gravel. "I do hope she will wake soon," she said, turning to Nora; "that gravel makes a great noise, and some of the neighbors may pop out their heads to see what is the matter. There!
No one did, however. Linda during the critical moment was closeted with her mother. When she reappeared the girls were halfway to the village. They reached it in good time, and arrived at the house of Miss Truefitt, Stephanotie's aunt. Miss Truefitt was an old-fashioned and precise little lady.
There was a good deal of color and embossed writing also on the cover, and altogether it was as showy and, in Stephanotie's opinion, as handsome a thing as anybody could desire. She walked through the village, holding the box, tied with great bunches of red ribbon, in her hand.
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