“And wouldn’t you like to go and take a look at the floating home in which we are to live for about two weeks?”
“Certainly I should, unless——”
“Unless what?”
“Our company should inconvenience uncle or Dick.”
“It will not inconvenience me in the slightest degree. On the contrary it will give me pleasure. And—it don’t matter about Dick,” said the General.
“Then we’ll go,” concluded Anna, rising from the table.
“And you had better get ready at once, young ladies, as we have a great deal-do-to-day after seeing the ship,” advised the General.
“And Drusilla, if I were in your place, I would let Pina take little Lenny across the street into the park. Jacob can go along to look after them both. So they will be quite safe,” counseled Anna.
Drusilla nodded and smiled assent.
And they went up stairs to put on their bonnets, and soon came down prepared for the drive.