“But it didn’t rain,” said Nan, “and everything went off all right, and they must have made bushels of money.”
“Well, it was lovely,” said Patty with a little sigh, “and I enjoyed every minute of it, but I don’t want to engage in another one right away. I think I shall go to bed and sleep for a week!”
“I wish I were a bear,” said Kenneth, “they can go to sleep and sleep all winter.”
“You’d make a good bear,” said Patty, in an aside to him, “because you can be so cross.”
But the merry smile that accompanied her words robbed them of any unpleasant intent, and Kenneth smiled back in sympathy.
“Just to think,” said Nan, “a week from to-day we’ll all be back in the city, and our lovely summer vacation a thing of the past.”
“It has been a beautiful summer,” said Patty, her thoughts flying backward over the past season. “I’ve never had such a happy summer in my life. It’s been just one round of pleasure after another. Everybody has been so good to me and the whole world seems to have connived to help me have a good time.”
“In so far as I’m part of the whole world, allow me to express my willingness to keep right on conniving,” said big Dick Phelps, in his funny way.
“Me, too,” said Kenneth, in his hearty, boyish voice.
Mr. Hepworth said nothing, but he smiled at Patty from where he sat at the other end of the long verandah.