“Oh, well, we can easily put in that time somewhere; I can go to Aunt Kit’s; she wants me,” said Jo.
“And you will see Bruce,” exclaimed Jean. “How is he getting along, Jo?”
“Finely. You never saw a cat more made of. What shall you do with your in-between, Danny?”
“Louise Burnett has been asking me for a visit after school closes, and so has Effie Glenn.”
“Dear me,” ejaculated Nan, “how this all does remind me of the old days. Has Blue China another parrot, Jo?”
“No, thank goodness, and this year she has been away a good deal so we have been spared her prim presence.”
“Reminiscing does so fly away with time,” remarked Mary Lee as she looked at her watch. “We must go if we are to get back to mother in time for dinner. Well, girls, it isn’t good-bye, it is only auf wiedersehn.”
“Or hasta luego,” put in Mary Lee who preferred Spanish for reasons of her own.
“You are such a darling, Aunt Helen,” whispered Nan when they were seated in the train. “It was just dear of you to do that for Jo.”
“I like Jo,” returned Miss Helen, “and I think she ought to be given every chance. She has improved wonderfully.”