[70][CHAPTER V]
THE LITTLE BUNGALOW
Immediately after breakfast the next morning Mrs. Ramsey bore off Miss Newman in the automobile, and the two were gone most of the morning. "And there is the porch party this afternoon," said Jennie. "It must be something very important or mother wouldn't stay so long."
"What do you think it could be?" asked Edna. Louis had not yet made his appearance and the little girls had resumed their old harmonious attitude toward one another.
"I'm sure I don't know, but I think it must be something about Miss Newman."
"Let's ask Miss Eloise if she knows," suggested Dorothy.
But Miss Eloise could give them no satisfaction. "Sister said they were going off on a little matter of business and that she would tell me when they came back," she informed the children.
"Well, lunch is on the table," said Edna, "so we won't have to wait very long."
She was quite right for at this moment the two ladies arrived. "What did keep you so forever, [71]Mother?" asked Jennie as her mother joined the others who were already at table.
"Well, my dear, it is quite a story. We have had a great morning of it, and as soon as we get something to eat we will tell you all about it. I am sure Miss Newman is half starved, for we have been from Dan to Beersheba this morning."
"Those sound like Bible places," spoke up Edna.