“It was in the paper and I suppose everybody thought you knew. Betty was in too much of a whirl. Her mother’s only written cards, and just a telegram came, saying which train they were to take. Betty does not even know the address of where she’s going!”
“How could the goods go down, then? Somebody had to know.”
“I think the truckman was to telephone the boarding house or office or some place after he reached the city, to find out where to take the goods.”
“I should think that Mrs. Lee would have wanted Betty to help get settled.”
“She was going to hire some one to put it through, in a hurry. Besides, Mrs. Royce couldn’t manage Amy Louise without Betty. As it was, she made a dreadful fuss.”
“I suppose so. But Betty spoils her, too.”
“Not so much. When Betty says, ‘Amy Louise Lee’, in that way of hers. Amy Lou pays attention.”
“How old is Betty anyway?”
“She’ll be fourteen in December. Don’t you remember her birthday party last year?”
“That’s so. Oh, here’s Betty! ’Lo there, Betty Lee!”