a sentence. I won’t do it again.” Polly took a long breath.
“You know tonight there is nothing to do, and we thought it would be nice to go for a walk, out to the fort, just we three, and Angela and Connie; Florence and Louise said they’d come for a little while if they could.”
“Yes, and?” Miss Porter asked inquiringly.
“Oh, well, of course, we want you to come, too,” Polly ended, rather lamely.
Miss Porter sat very still for a minute and then she smiled, and when Miss Porter smiled it was a rare treat. If you watched her long enough you always ended by smiling, too. “That is a jolly idea,” she said, enthusiastically. “Of course I’ll come. I can’t think of any nicer way of spending this lovely evening.” Then suddenly her face fell. “Oh, my dear children, I forgot.”
“What?” they demanded.
“We haven’t a free evening at all. We are to have a lecture.”
“You mean Mrs. Baird? But she’s only going to tell us the plans for next week; it won’t take a minute,” Betty said assuringly.
“No, that’s not it; this is another quite unexpected lecture. Mrs. Baird told the faculty about it after luncheon, but it slipped my mind.”
“Oh,” Lois groaned, “what’s it to be?”