Presently there was an answering "Hallo," from the other end.
"Is that you, Dorothy?" called Edna.
"Yes. Oh, Edna, I hoped it was you. Do tell me, is there any news?"
"I'm going," came the triumphant reply.
"So am I," came promptly back to her.
[24][CHAPTER II]
THE ARRIVAL
For the next few days there was much talk of clothes and packing, of trains and time-tables, and it was a matter of some discussion as to the best way for the little girls to make their journey of some hundreds of miles. Dorothy had never been so far away from home, and was therefore the more excited of the two. After some writing back and forth it was decided that the two children should go to the city under Mr. Conway's care and there he turned them over to Mr. Ramsey who was to join his family at the seashore in about a week.
"Do you suppose we shall get homesick?" asked Dorothy as the time drew near for them to make their start.
"Oh, I hope not," returned Edna fervently. "I was awfully homesick at Aunt Elizabeth's, but this will be quite different, for there will be Jennie, and Mrs. Ramsey is a real mother; besides we shall have one another."
"I know all that," returned Dorothy a little dubiously, "but Jennie's mother won't be mine nor yours."