"What is it, Dolly?" asked Geordie, with a blank look.
"Secret!" laughed Dolly, "come over here and whisper to me."
"Oh, how rude!" cried Alicia; "even out West we don't whisper in polite society!"
"But this is a special case," and Dolly smiled and dimpled, as if about to discuss the most trivial subject with Geordie.
The boy looked surprised when Dolly spoke to him about what they had overheard the night before.
"Why," he said, "I never gave it another thought! I don't believe they really meant what we thought they did."
"Yes, they did," asserted Dolly. "All day, Alicia has been keyed up to some great excitement. She had a letter from Marly this morning, and she expects a telephone from him. Also, she said things that could only mean that they really are going to elope to-night."
"Such as what?"
"She said maybe she'd live in New York soon, and said she had a big, wonderful secret and we'd know it to-morrow,—why, she even said she expects to live in New York after she's married!"
"Whew! that's going some! Still, Dolly, I don't just see what we can do."