"Eustace!" cried Nesta, staring at him as if she thought he must have suddenly gone mad.
"Well?" he said briefly.
"But this is home—and father is staying here," the girl argued. "We couldn't stay in England for ever."
"I don't know," said Eustace. "I've got an awfully queer feeling about going ever since it was settled. And it seems to me Bob has it too."
"Oh, stuff!" said Nesta bracingly. "Bob only says it to tease Aunt Dorothy."
"He said just the same things before Aunt Dorothy came," was the response. "That is nothing to go by."
"Well, neither are your queer feelings," said Nesta. "I haven't any. I don't see why we should stay in England. What is to make us?"
"Suppose we were left there to go to school?" suggested Eustace, watching her narrowly.
Nesta stared at him blankly. It was evidently a new idea to her.
"Do you think we might be?" she said; then her expression broke, and she smiled. "It would be just splendid, wouldn't it?" she added.