"I have been so busy," said Judith, turning scarlet and blinking to keep back the tears of mortification at this last straw.
"Busy!" said Aunt Nell quizzically; "busy learning important things?"
"Very important things," said Judith.
CHAPTER III
DRESSING UP
"Got your costume ready for to-night, Judy?" asked Nancy one glorious sunshiny morning a few weeks later.
"I have not," came from Judith in dismayed tones; "I absolutely forgot about it. Why didn't you remind me? I haven't heard any one mention it all week."
"Well, there hasn't really been time to do anything, has there? And, anyway, we usually concoct something at the last minute. I do love dressing up, don't you?"
"I do if I don't have to make up the dress," said Judith honestly, as she finished making her bed and leaned out of the window to take deep breaths of the glorious October air. "Nancy, do come and look at the maple grove, and the oaks and the beeches against that lovely sky, and isn't the vine on Miss Meredith's house simply a gorgeous colour? I could almost eat the sunshine, it's so good. Tell me what to wear to-night. I don't know what I should have done without your help last Friday."