"It's my new cap," and Dolly smiled from beneath the lacy frills and rosebud decorations of a dainty new cap that Trudy had just made for her. She wore a Japanese kimono of pale green silk embroidered with white cherry blossoms, and as she sat surrounded by embroidered pillows and lace coverlets, Bob thought he had never seen a prettier picture.
"You look like a princess," he said. "Princess Dolly."
"I am a princess," she smiled back; "Mother and Trudy are my ladies in waiting and do just as I bid them. How much you look like Dotty."
"Glad you think so; I think Dot's a raving beauty. But I say, it's a shame you two girls had to go and break each other up just when we were going to have a perfectly good old summer time."
"I know it; isn't it a shame. But we'll have to wait till next summer and have the fun then."
"'Deed we won't! You'll be outdoors by the first of August, won't you?"
"Yes," and Dolly made a wry face, "but that's about the same as saying the first of Eternity!"
"Oh, not so bad as that. And anyhow I'm an inventive genius, and I'll bet we can have some fun even before August."
A bustle and commotion was heard downstairs just then and Dolly's face lighted up as she heard a familiar voice.
"Oh," she cried; "there's Bert! Come on up, Bert."