“Candy! Doesn’t this look grand? I’ll get a dime’s worth of bonbons and you get a dime’s worth of caramels, that is unless you prefer some other kinds. Let’s end the evening with candy.”
It is a wonder they were not ill the next day but they weren’t. They felt fine. Mimi could hardly contain herself. They were so sound asleep when Dit had come in that she rolled them over to make room for herself without waking either. They slept soundly as tired babies. That is why they were so fresh this morn.
“Wonder what time Dit came in?” Mimi whispered to Betsy in the bathroom. They had managed to get up without awakening her.
“None of our business,” Betsy replied. “Let’s dress right quickly and go down to the coffee shop and eat breakfast and have Dit’s sent up for a surprise.”
“Suits.” Mimi had picked up this word at Sheridan and she found it an apt answer to many questions.
The two felt very important walking on the thick carpet to the elevator.
“I don’t know if it’s being away from Daddy and Mother Dear or being fourteen or what, but I am beginning to feel so grown up. After this hotel experience I feel I could go on most any trip and take care of myself.”
“You should never have any trouble, not you, with all the questions you can ask.”
“All right, Smartie, I’ll ask you one. What do we eat and what shall we order for Dit?”
Whatever they ordered they ate quickly so that they could get back to the room to waken Dit before her tray was sent. In spite of their hurry, someone else had wakened Dit. When the girls walked in, she was standing in the middle of the room in her negligee hugging a cardboard florist’s box almost as tall as she.