“Really, he was. I sent him flying, though!”
“What was his idea?”
“Oh, he said he’d heard Neale tell how, in a circus, a little dog rode on a pony’s back and Sammy didn’t see why a cat couldn’t ride on a goat.”
“Well, if he put it that way I suppose she could,” assented Ruth. “But Almira seems to take herself very seriously with all those kittens. We really must get rid of them. Vacation will soon be here, and with Tess and Dot around the house all day, instead of just Saturdays, I don’t know what we shall do.”
“Have you made any vacation plans at all?”
“Not yet, Agnes. I thought I’d wait until I saw Mr. Howbridge at the club meeting this afternoon.”
“What has he to do with our vacation—unless he’s going along?”
“Oh, no, I didn’t mean that, at all! But the financial question does enter into it; and as he is our guardian and has charge of our money, I want to know just how much we can count on spending.”
“Why, have we lost any money?”
“Not that I know of. I hope not! But I always have consulted him before we made any summer plans, and I don’t see why we should not now.”