“Wasn’t she yours to begin with?” demanded Mary. “Aren’t you getting all the fun of what we do for her, and won’t she always be known in Harding history as your second self?”
Madeline smiled genially. “There’s something in that, perhaps,” she said. “I do certainly like the way you’re bringing her out. Before she joined ‘The Merry Hearts’ she was just clever and literary. Now she has style and social position.”
“And a real lace handkerchief,” murmured Babe, “that Dr. Eaton never took to the ‘Lost and Found’ place, so I could get it back.”
“And a three-dollar-and-eighty-cent-bunch of violets,” added Bob, with a wrathful glance at Roberta.
“I wish you hadn’t named her father Erasmus J.,” said Madeline. “Still there’s nothing positively unpleasant about Erasmus J., and I rather like the idea of her having a fussy, stupid little mother.”
“How many more weeks to midyears?” asked Rachel.
“Five to Christmas,” said Betty, who always counted the days from the beginning of each term to the nearest vacation.
“Well, we must make the most of them,” said Mary briskly. “We shall be dreadfully busy between Christmas and midyears.”
“You don’t think,” inquired Helen doubtfully, “that it’s wrong to signs Georgia’s name or her mother’s to papers or letters?”