CHAPTER III.
THE PREPARATIONS.
“You dear, dear Alfy,” piped Dorothy, joyously as she ran to meet Alfy, whom Metty had just brought up from the station to the house.
“Oh, Dorothy, I am so glad to see you,” rejoined Alfy with none the less joy than Dorothy had displayed. “I just must kiss you again.”
“Did you have an uneventful trip?” asked Dorothy, drawing her friend into the house.
“Just simply took train and arrived, that was all.”
“Metty, you see that Alfy’s things are taken up to the blue room.”
Then turning to Alfaretta again, “Aunt Betty is upstairs in the sewing room. We shall go straight to her. I believe she is just longing to get a sight of you again, just as much as I was when I wrote you.”
“Oh, Mrs. Calvert, I am so glad to see you again—Aunt Betty,” said Alfy, going over to Aunt Betty’s chair and putting both arms around her and kissing her several times.