"Certainly, he can't stay," reiterated Mrs. Bishop. "If I have to put him in the train myself to-day, and pack him off to London."
"But who'll meet him?" asked Dora.
"Oh, of course, I suppose I shall telegraph to her. I've got her address."
"But that's a terrible waste of money," Elsie objected. "If you wrote now and sent him by a later train, wouldn't she get it in time?"
"It can be charged to her bill," said Mrs. Bishop.
"And are you going to send Maurie alone, all the way up to London?" Sally exclaimed, forced at last to break her silence.
"Of course," said Mrs. Bishop, with surprise. "You don't think I'm going to afford him the luxury of a travelling companion, do you?"
"You may not; but I shall."
"What on earth do you mean?"
"I shall go with him myself."