“And what was that?”
“I got to wondering what you would have in your baskets this evening.”
“Ham croquettes, buttered beets, potato salad and hot muffins. Blackberry dumpling for dessert!” Judith smiled, as she chanted the menu.
CHAPTER XIX
Miss Ann Moves On
The Bucknors of Buck Hill were going abroad. It was all settled and they were to start as soon as necessary arrangements could be made. The plan had been born in Mildred’s mind and she had influenced her mother, who in turn had persuaded her husband and now passage was engaged and it was only a matter of a few weeks before they would sail.
It had all come about because Jeff had felt in duty bound to inform his sister that Tom Harbison had come back to Ryeville with the intention of calling on another girl, and that girl Judith Buck.
“I always said she was a forward minx,” stormed Mildred.