But that lady shooed them out and would have none of them.
"Be off with you. You have time for a fifteen minute walk."
"Shall we?" asked Aunt Madge. And without waiting for an answer, she was off, Mary Lee at her side.
They could not have wanted the walk very much, for when they sighted the big oak which was but a little way down the road, they made themselves comfortable beneath it. They were really anxious to have a heart to heart talk and this was just the place for it.
"Well, my dear, you can now ask me all the questions that are stored up in that little mind of yours. I shall try my best to answer them."
Mary Lee needed no second invitation. She fairly swamped Aunt Madge with her deluge of questions.
"THE GIRLS MISS YOU SO MUCH."