“Mamma said we mustn’t do that,” said Mary. “It isn’t polite.”
“It sounds like company ringing the bell,” spoke Johnny. “And there goes Suzette to answer it,” he added, as the nursemaid hurried down to the hall to the front door.
“Oh, I remember now!” exclaimed Mary. “I saw mamma putting on her new silk dress a while ago, so she must be going to have company. Come on, boys, we’d better get out of the front room, for mamma doesn’t allow us in there when she has visitors.”
“I know what we can do,” said Tommy, as he crawled under a big chair to get his rubber ball, which had rolled there.
“What?” asked Mary, eagerly.
“We can go upstairs to our playroom,” went on her brother, “and then we can look down in the street, and see whose carriage or automobile is there. Then we’ll know what company mamma has, without looking out of the windows down here.”
“That’s the very thing!” cried Johnny. “And maybe it’s some of those ladies who play or sing in such high voices. We can hear them upstairs, and it will be lots of fun.”
So the Trippertrot children started to go up to their playroom, and in the hall they met Suzette.
“Where are you going?” the nursemaid asked them, as she paused on her way to answer the bell.
“Just upstairs to look out of the window,” replied Mary.