Gwen was rather surprised that Sprite seemed little interested.
"Come over here," she said, "and I'll show you something I guess you never saw before."
Without waiting to learn if Sprite cared to go, Gwen grasped her arm, and literally tugged her inside the gateway.
"See these rose bushes?" she asked.
"Well, they're out of blossom now, but they had much as, oh, I guess a hundred roses on them all at one time!"
Then seeing Sprite's look of surprise, she decided to enlarge her story.
"I guess there must have been a thousand, now I think of it," she said. "Papa paid twenty dollars a piece for them, and maybe it was more than that. I'm not quite sure."
Sprite made no comment.
"And I planted one of the bushes, and I'll tell you something real funny about it," Gwen said. "I planted it upside down just to see what it would do, and what do you s'pose? After it had been there 'bout a month I dug it up, and there were roses on it! It had blossomed down in the dirt! They were bigger than the ones that had been planted the right way, and they might have been even bigger if I hadn't dug them up so soon."
Sprite's truthful eyes were looking straight into Gwen's bold blue ones. "Are you sure that happened?" she asked.