“Oh, but he is just a little boy,” said Nancy.
“And he must begin to go to school this year, and he says he likes girls ever so much better than boys, so he asked if he might go to our school,” Dorothy said.
“He always says he likes girls best,” said Flossie; “isn't he a queer little fellow?”
“I don't know,” Mollie said, so drolly that they all laughed.
“And there is a new pupil, who has just come here to live, and she is very nice, Jeanette Earl says,” and as she spoke Dorothy looked up at her friends, a soft pleading in her blue eyes.
She intended to give a kindly welcome to the new pupil, and she hoped that the others would be friendly.
“How does Jeanette know?” asked Mollie, bluntly.
“Oh, Jeanette ought to know,” said Nancy, “for the new little girl is her cousin, I mean her third cousin.”
“Well, Nina is Jeanette's sister,” said Mollie, “so what does she say?”
“She didn't say anything,” said Nancy, “she just looked.”