“Oh, I don’t know. I keep telling you, Dolly, if Bernice was nice to people, you wouldn’t have to try to boost her. And if she isn’t, boosting won’t do any good. There’s the whole thing in a nutshell. Now we must go home, or they’ll be sending over after us.”
“Yes, I s’pose we must. Well, Dot, I’ll see about this thing. I’ve got to think it over.”
“All right, old slowpoke thinker! And say, Dollops, you aren’t mad at what Genie did, are you?”
“Oh, goodness no. You know I don’t like practical jokes much; you know how I hated that one they played on Miss Partland, but I’m not mad at Genie, of course not.”
“Good for you. But I’ll see that she isn’t allowed to do such a thing again.”
CHAPTER IX
FAIRIES AND SUCH
Dolly did think over the question of Bernice Forbes and the party. And the result of her cogitation led her straight to Grace’s house.
“I’ve come,” she said, “to ask a favour, Grace. I want to know if you won’t ask Bernice Forbes to your Hallowe’en party.”
“Why, Dolly, I would,—only,—well, you see the number is all made up.”
“What number?”