"Haven't we had a good time?" said Jack cordially. "What are you going to do this evening, Carter?"
"Don't know, Jaquita. I may go to the opera, if we get back in time. I know very well what you will do."
"What?"
"Tumble into your little bed and go to sleep in about two minutes," returned Carter laughing.
They were all so tired that opera was not to be thought of, and it was decided to put off that pleasure till the next evening when all went except Mrs. Corner and the twins.
"I suppose Nan will be snippy and will say it's not worth listening to because the music is not Wagner's," said Mary Lee as they started out through the gay streets.
"Indeed I shall not," returned Nan indignantly. "I like Wagner best, of course, but I can enjoy anything good, I hope."
"I've never reached the place where I can appreciate Wagner," confessed Jo.
"You're not studying music," Nan explained. "If you were you would feel differently. I didn't care so much for it either till Frau Burg-Schmidt introduced me to the mysteries. Now that I can understand it I think it is the greatest ever."