"Seeing that I have been trained from babyhood it would be disgraceful if I were not. Oh, what crazy things we have done—Louis and I! And then we would bind ourselves by a solemn promise not to betray each other. Children must have charmed lives!"
"You are hardly out of childhood yet."
"Wait until you see me in the gorgeousness of a train and a top-knot. You will wonder at my dignity. Perhaps you will not recognize me. The gown is pink. That may be some help."
"Pink. The pink roses are the sweetest, I believe."
She nodded with a spice of coquetry.
"And now are we to crawl through this dismal glade? Think of Indians lying in ambush!"
"Nay, do not spoil a pleasant ride by such a grewsome suggestion."
He led the way, and they soon emerged to the open again. The Capital loomed up; the scattered houses made quite a show, after all.
That evening Roger and she were partners at whist against his mother and grandmother, and the ladies won.
The next day the girls went over to Washington.