Doctor Joe shook his head, with a sort of mirthful regret which couldn't help but soothe the disappointment a little.
"I don't want you to read or to study, but just run out in the sunshine and get fat. If we have such a poor pale little thing in our family, people will wonder if I really am a good physician."
He looked so grave, not a bit as if he was "making fun," that she gave a sort of sighing assent.
"If you get real homesick, you need not stay more than a fortnight. But there is a good deal to learn out of doors. There are trees and wild flowers and birds. I'll come up now and then and take you out driving."
"I shall like that. I suppose I may write to Daisy Jasper?" she returned with a flash of spirit. "You see I want to know about London, and Berlin, and ever so many places, so that I won't seem like an ignoramus when she comes back."
"You will have all winter to learn about them." Then he kissed her and went off about his own business.
She had to go and say good-bye to Stevie, who was just too sweet for anything, and Annie, and dark-eyed Daisy Hoffman.