BLUE BONNET DECIDES
"ALEC SURVEYED HER PROUD LITTLE PROFILE."
"I say, Blue Bonnet, wait for a fellow, won't you?"
Blue Bonnet waited, none too eagerly, while Alec caught up with her, and then, whistling to Don and Solomon, turned to resume her walk along the grassy bank of San Franciscito.
Alec surveyed her proud little profile for a few minutes in a sort of puzzled wonder, and finally as she kept on in the same unsociable manner, he began with determined friendliness:
"We've never yet taken the walk we planned, along the rio. Feel equal to it this morning?"
"There isn't time to go far. I told Grandmother I'd not be gone long," she returned carelessly.
"Another tea-party on?" This time he succeeded in bringing the old sparkle of laughter to her eyes.
"Not this time," she answered.