"Oh, if you would," said Randy, with such evident delight, that Polly more than half wished that she had made the suggestion.
How they talked and chattered that afternoon, and when the three girls took leave of Randy and Helen and walked briskly down the avenue, Nina, with twinkling eyes, said to Polly,
"I think she is one of the sweetest girls that I know, and Polly, did she seem very countrified to you?"
"Now, Nina," Polly answered in a crestfallen tone,
"Who knew that she was a regular beauty, and who for a moment supposed that she would be dressed like a city girl?"
"I said that if Miss Helen Dayton called her charming, I had no doubt about it," said Nina, "and I am willing to say that she is even more pleasing than I had imagined."
"It is her pretty, truthful manner that makes me like her," said Peggy, "and I mean to be her friend while she is here."
Miss Dayton had seen at once that Randy was making a pleasant impression upon the girls, and wondered if Randy was equally pleased with them.
"Well, Randy," she said after the girls had left, and together they stood before the fire-place.
"Oh, I liked them," was Randy's quick reply. "They were so friendly. I like Nina Irwin best, but they were all so pleasant that perhaps I should not like one better than the others."