"But you could eat another one, you mean?"
"If Aunt Barbara wouldn't mind...."
"Oh, she won't mind, she never does. I think I could eat two myself. And afterwards—you help me with the dishes, Jule—and after that we'll go to Gone-Away and see about the club. It's probably a perfect mess," Portia said contentedly, and went singing into the house.
[8]
Gone-Away Housekeeping
All the length of the drive, until it curved into the woods, Portia kept turning around and walking backward so she could watch her house.
"Remember last year just about now when Aunt Minnehaha told us about the Villa Caprice and said it gave her the creeps? And remember how it gave us the creeps first time we saw it? Well, just look at it now, Jule. Did you ever see anything so changed in all your life?"
Julian walked backward, too, for a minute; so did Foster and so did Davey, who had arrived as soon after breakfast as his mother would let him.
"And it's not even finished yet," Portia said.