"I feel exactly that way myself," Dorothy confessed. "But even if we weren't going to-day we couldn't stay very long, for the house will be closed next week, and we shouldn't want to stay there alone."
Edna admitted that this was true, and then Jennie came over to sit with them and they talked of the things they were to see and the places they were to go in the next two days.
"I think we will go to the Old North Church first," said Mrs. Ramsey as they left the train. "We will send the baggage to the hotel, then we will not have to come to this part of the city again."
"Oh, what a funny place," said Jennie, as they took their way through streets where queer-looking foreigners congregated.
"I think the people are funnier than the place," remarked Edna.
[160] "They are mostly Polish or Russian Jews," Mrs. Ramsey told her. "It is not the neighborhood it was in Paul Revere's day. Here is the old church."
The children looked with awe and reverence at the ancient edifice, and, going inside, were shown some of the Revolutionary relics which were there on exhibition. Just as they were coming out they met a young man coming in.
"Hallo!" he cried in surprise.
"Why if it isn't Ben," cried Edna delightedly. "Why Ben Barker how did you get here?"
"I might ask you the same question," he replied.