"But did you never think of it once during the holidays? I should have thought studying would bring it to your mind."
"I haven't done any studying—I was so dead sick of lessons," confessed Claudia. "I've just been playing about with the children all the time."
"Oh!"
Lorraine's tone was eloquent.
"What will Miss Janet say?" speculated Claudia gloomily.
What, indeed? Lorraine did not dare to anticipate what would happen at The Gables on the receipt of such news. Only a member of the haphazard Castleton family would have been capable of such a shiftless act. It was exactly what Morland would have done, but Lorraine had expected better things from Claudia.
"CLAUDIA! HOW COULD YOU FORGET?"
"Can't you get it signed now, and send it off?" she suggested.