"We are going to walk by William," they said together.
"All right," consented Sarah.
She and Miss Miflin led the way down the broad steps, and William and the twins came behind. They gazed at him rapturously, realizing that he was as wonderful as their vague remembrance pictured him.
"He is going," said Louisa Ellen, when he drew his hand away, "to buy us candy!"
Fortunately it was to Sarah that he handed the bag, and it was with Sarah that the twins were anxious to sit when they got into the train. It was a little trying that she would let them have only two chocolate drops apiece until they got home.
She looked back once at William and Miss Miflin, who were not talking to each other, but who smiled at her. There was something in their faces which made her heart beat.
"I wonder—" she said softly to herself; then she did not finish the sentence.
"Oh, I am going to cook such a supper!" she said to the approving twins. "First I will fetch Albert and then I will cook."
But Albert did not need to be fetched. When they opened the kitchen door, he ran to meet them.
"Aunt 'Liza fetched me home," he cried, "I am never going away."