“I’d like to start right off now and skate and skate without stopping, until I got to the end of the pond!” Blue Bonnet declared.
“But no one ever does skate up at the upper end of the pond,” Susy explained; “the ice is always rough up there; besides, it isn’t safe in ever so many spots.”
“Anyhow, I’d like to try it.” Blue Bonnet was in the mood for adventure; wasn’t it Friday afternoon? “I mean to ask Alec to go with me.”
“He’s playing hockey!” Kitty said, looking at a group of boys down beyond. “He wouldn’t take you if he wasn’t—nor let you go,” she added mischievously.
“I don’t see how he could very well help that,” Blue Bonnet retorted. “I believe I’ll try it alone.”
“I’d like awfully well to see you!” Kitty teased, in what Amanda called her “aggravating tone.”
“Is that a dare?” Blue Bonnet demanded.
“If you like to call it one.”
Blue Bonnet bent to tighten her skates.