“All right,” agreed Patty.
CHAPTER II
BUMBLE ARRIVES
“Hello! Patty Popinjay! Where are you?”
As a matter of fact, Patty was curled up in a big armchair near the library fire, waiting for that very voice.
“Here I am!” she cried in return and jumped up to be grabbed in the arms of a handsome, jolly-looking girl who came flying into the room. “Oh, Bumble, I’m so glad to see you!”
The newcomer laughed.
“Bumble!” she exclaimed; “I haven’t heard that name for years. Let me look at you, Patty. My! you’re prettier than ever! Well, I just had to come. I couldn’t resist, when I heard of your engagement. Where’s the man? Show him to me at once!”
“Oh, he isn’t here, for the moment. But you’ll see him soon. I’m only afraid you’ll cut me out. Why, Bumble,—Helen, I mean, you’re utterly changed from the little girl I remember.”
“Of course I am—in appearance,—but no other way.”
“Are you still the happy-go-lucky, hit-or-miss little rascal you used to be?”