Miss Sterling rose.
"You will, Miss Nita?" Polly clung to her hand.
"Yes, but not with this dress on."
"I bid many thanks to you," said Mrs. Adlerfeld quaintly; "I shall like to go very." Having made sure of the others, Polly ran off to make her invitation general, stopping at various doors on her way downstairs.
"Shall we go two by two, like a boarding-school?" giggled Miss
Crilly, as the little party left the Home grounds.
"Let's go any old way!" Then, glancing beyond Miss Crilly, Polly gave a glad cry,—"David and Leonora!" and flew to meet the two who were just at the hospital entrance.
"Will you come to walk with us?" she invited, "Or I'll stay if you'd rather."
They declared that they would much prefer the walk, and Polly was soon making the introductions where they were needed. Many of the ladies were well acquainted with Polly's friends.
David at once appropriated his old-time chum, and Leonora skipped over to Miss Sterling.
"Ther' 's so many of us we ought to march abreast, clear across the street, as they do in processions!" Miss Crilly was in high spirits..