"What?"
"Yes. The thing fascinates me. I want a plane, too! I'm going to touch my Dad for one when I get home tonight!"
"But you've promised everybody you'll go to Green Falls!"
"So I will—August first!"
And so, much to Miss Carlton's delight, when the rest of the crowd left Spring City the following week, Ralph Clavering stayed at home with a couple of the servants, and enrolled at the same time as Linda, at the Spring City Flying School.
[Chapter V]
The First Lesson in Flying
Early the next morning, Linda wakened her father and hurried him through his breakfast. There wasn't a moment to be lost, she told him excitedly, like a child waiting to open her Christmas stocking. She had her car under the portico before he had finished his second cup of coffee.
"Don't drive so fast that you are killed on the way," cautioned her aunt. "Remember, dear, you have the rest of your life to fly that plane!"