“Stupid! Don’t interrupt me at the most exciting point of my story. Well, when I saw this creature in dim red brocade, a green velvet train flowing out behind her and a white veil cascading down her back, you may imagine my surprise, and when I saw it was Jack you can imagine the still further surprise.”
“Jack!” came a chorus of astonished voices.
“Yes, my dears, Jack it was in the flesh, though I wasn’t sure for a moment whether I was dreaming or not. Oh, I forgot to tell you that before that, I had been attracted by sounds of a violin which issued from the little house. Some one was playing, and playing well. It was all like a fairy tale. Well, Jack dragged me toward the house insisting that I should go in and see it because it was so dear. In my innocence——”
“Suddenly out Darted a Mediæval Princess.”
“And curiosity,” put in Mary Lee.
“Of course curiosity. Who wouldn’t be curious under such circumstances? Well, I went in and—girls, you’ll never guess whom I saw there.”
“Not Miss Dolores,” Mary Lee cried.
“No. How could it be? You’re ’way off.”
“One of the girls from the Wadsworth school, Charlotte, maybe.” This from Daniella.