"How'd you ever think of it?" asked Alice.
"I didn't," answered Mrs. Merrill, and the girls saw that she was as pleased as they were with the idea. "Hal thought of it. When he brought us up last night he suggested that maybe we'd be tired this morning and that we shouldn't hurry. He said he'd order it as he went away and that I should ring when we were ready and they'd bring it up."
"And you did, and they did," added Mary Jane, not very intelligently to be sure, but they all knew what she meant.
"How did he know what to order?" asked Alice as she took the first luscious bit of strawberry.
"I guess he just ordered what he saw you liked yesterday, which was a very good way to do," said Mrs. Merrill. "Now while we eat, let's plan what to do to-day."
"When is the game?" asked Alice.
"Not till afternoon," replied Mrs. Merrill. "I thought maybe this morning would be a good time to take that ride through Boston that we didn't get on Monday—that won't tire us, and anyway, we'll just be sitting at the game, it won't be a lot of walking like yesterday."
"And I won't wear white shoes, will I?" asked Mary Jane with a pang of recollection.
"You poor child!" cried Mrs. Merrill, "as soon as we get through breakfast I must see about those shoes and your foot! I can't see why they should have given so much trouble when they seemed all right."
"I guess they're all right now," said Mary Jane, "but when are we going to ride on the swan boats? Uncle Hal said I could ride every day and we didn't even go there yesterday!"