"Very well," answered Letty. "We'll use a steamer trunk for both of us. We simply can't use anything smaller, can we?"
"I thought perhaps we could," replied Mary Lee rather meekly. "But we'll compromise on a small trunk, as you say."
The girls were all ready by dinner time. After dinner they visited Ruth, who lived close by.
"I'm so glad you came, for you can help me decide what to take with me."
"Well, if you'll take our advice," said Mary Lee, "you won't take much."
"I don't expect to," replied Ruth.
"You don't?" exclaimed the other two girls in amazement. "Look what you already have laid out and I suppose you'll declare that you haven't half your things," said Mary Lee.
"Here, let's show you," added Letty, who forgot that Mary Lee had earlier in the day urged her to cut down her own luggage.
Despite the excited exclamations of Ruth over things she insisted she must have, the two other girls determinedly had their way.
"Now, isn't this better?" asked Mary Lee, when they were through packing, and her trunk, but half the size of the original, still had room for more things. "You mustn't forget you are only going for a few days."