"We'll have to wait 'til the evening of the party, and we might as well wait patiently."
"Rose won't tell us," Lena said, reaching to give one of Rose's brown curls just a little "tweak."
"At first when you asked me, I said I didn't know," said Rose, "but now I'll have to say that I know all of Uncle John's plans for the party, but I won't tell."
"And Sprite knows something about it, for see! She's laughing now," said Rob.
"Like Rose I know, but won't tell," Sprite said.
"I won't tease then," said Princess Polly, "because they ought not to tell, and I don't really want them to. I'd like to know now, but I'd rather have it a surprise when the evening comes."
"Polly is right, as usual," said Rob Lindsey, to which Harry Grafton replied in a teasing voice:
"Does anyone believe that Rob would say that anything that Polly does is anything but right?"
"Quit teasing," cried Rob, "or I'll return the favor."
Harry at once became silent, and the others laughed, for it was well known that he admired Rose, and that he did not like to be teased.