"She's a funny girl, isn't she?"
"Well, she's nice sometimes, and sometimes she isn't. Here's my brother King. King, this is Ruth Rowland, and what do you think? She lives in Seacote! I mean, for the summer she's staying there."
"Good!" cried King. "We can play together then, after we go back."
The three children rapidly became good friends, and soon Ruth proposed that they all go for a ride in a roller chair.
"They have wide chairs," she said, "that will hold all three of us."
Midget ran to ask her mother if they might do this, but Mrs. Maynard was not willing that the children should go alone.
"But Nannie and Rosamond may go, too, in another chair," she said, "and then I shall feel that you are looked after."
So down to the Boardwalk they went, and Nurse Nannie and Rosy Posy took one chair, and the three children took another. They selected a wide one which gave them plenty of room, and off they started.
It was a lovely, clear day, and the blue sky and the darker blue ocean met at the far distant horizon, with whitecaps dotted all over the crests of the waves. A few ships and steamers were to be seen, but mostly the children's attention was attracted to the scenes on shore.
"I thought it was lovely last night," said Midget, "but it's even nicer now. The booths and shops are so gay and festive, and the ladies all look so pretty in their summer frocks and bright parasols."