“Oh, but you see I am lucky in making much of my French and German. I have had unusual advantages in some directions, and Aunt Helen has been such a help with English and History of Art.”
“No co-ed, I suppose.”
“Well, no, not but that they have their advantages.”
“You’ll not go too far north, I hope.”
“Probably not. I think not beyond New York, anyway.”
“That’s good. So much the better chance for seeing you sometimes. And the others?”
“They’ll go back to Miss Cameron’s, and next year I hope Mary Lee will enter college. I’m the pioneer, you see. Jo is ready to go, but Daniella will have a long time to wait, if she goes at all.”
“Isn’t she stunning? I say, Nan, who could ever recognize her in that little po’ white girl you all found up there in the mountains?”
“She is very grateful that you boys don’t seem to remember that.”
“We’re gentlemen, I hope, and besides she is all right in every way and we should be proud to be her friends. I see the canoes ahead are turning so I suppose we are nearing the end of the first stage of our journey.”