CHAPTER XIII
OFF FOR TILTON
The day that she had longed for came at last. The sun was bright, the breeze was cool, and Clematis was as happy as the sparrows that hopped about in the maple tree.
All the morning she ran here and there, getting her things ready.
She had a small, black bag, and the box Miss Rose left for her extra blouse. Her things were put into these.
Mrs. Snow had an early lunch for Clematis, because she was going on the one o’clock train.
“I would rather eat it down in the kitchen with Katie,” she said, when they started to put a bowl on the big table.
Katie was willing, so Clematis had some bread and soup on the corner of the kitchen table.
With Katie in the kitchen