"I hope Bobby will be sorry when he has time to think about it," she remarked in a subdued tone.
"Look at that!" said Ethelwyn in such a hopeful voice that Beth at once emerged from her eclipse behind Soosana, and looked with all her eyes.
There was Bobby, resplendent in a new suit and slippers with shining buckles, running across the lawn.
Ethelwyn and Beth at once pushed up the window, in order to meet him half-way.
"Do you want us, Bobby?" called Beth encouragingly.
"Yes; why on earth don't you come?" cried Bobby. "We are all ready to dance and Nan and everybody but you, are there, and I wouldn't let 'em begin till you came, so hurry up."
"We will," they cried in a breath, "and we would have come a long time ago if you only hadn't forgotten to invite us till so late. What made you, Bobby?"
"Why I didn't!" said Bobby in a surprised tone. "I took your invitation over to your front door and—and—your bell is pretty high up—"
"Yes, I can't reach it at all," said Beth breathlessly; "go on."
"So I shoved it under the door—"