“Yes, and I am going to take you out this afternoon and get a new jacket for you.”
“Oh, good! good! And you’ll wear your new suit and Jerry will wear his. How nice we will all look. Oh, isn’t it fine to be able to get things when you need them? Even if we’re not rich we can have ever so much more than we used to. Are we going to be gone all day to-morrow?”
“I can’t tell just how long.”
“Shall we take our lunch with us?”
“No, I don’t think that will be necessary, for if we need anything we can get it after we get there.”
“Then it isn’t in the country,” said Cassy, a little disappointed. “But think of our taking a real journey. ’Scuse me, mother, but I must go and talk to Miss Morning-Glory about it, or I’ll ask too many questions.”
“You’d better get ready to go out with me.”
Thus charged Cassy ran off to dress and they soon started out on their shopping expedition. Then when a dark-blue jacket had been selected, Mrs. Law said she must get two or three other things, so Cassy skipped along very happily by her side. The experience of going shopping was a rare one, and to see her mother with any money to spend was such a pleasure that the child enjoyed her afternoon hugely.
They started about nine o’clock the next morning upon their little journey. After an hour’s ride, which was by no means a dull one to the children, they left the train and found themselves at a small station. Their feet had hardly touched the platform before they heard a voice call,
“There they are!” And who should appear but Rock and Eleanor. “Oh, you did come, didn’t you? We’ve been down here half an hour,” exclaimed Eleanor. “We were so afraid we’d miss you.”