"I guess it worked all right," Tom whispered to Elizabeth, "with them."
"Bill asked if he could call me Peggy," that young lady whispered to Elizabeth, on the way home. "I was so surprised I nearly fell over. I thought he always had. I've always called him Bill."
"I think boys sort of make up their minds to do a certain kind of thing, and then they do it," said Elizabeth, "without thinking whether it is really appropriate or not."
"I guess you are right," Peggy said, "and now that we've had this pleasant afternoon, we'll just have to take up the burden of our gloomy thoughts again."
"I know it," said Elizabeth, forlornly.
CHAPTER XIV
Elizabeth Is Rude
Elizabeth and Moses took the shore road, and finally struck off across the fields and through the woods to make a short cut for the bathing beach. Moses was going to initiate the new bathing suit Elizabeth had bought him, and Elizabeth to sit on the beach and knit on a sweater she was making for Madget.