“Good-bye, dear girls,” they sang. “Good-bye, little gardeners! Good luck! Remember the fairies will be watching your gardens!”
Just then Mary Frances noticed a big soap bubble floating toward the little dancers. Nearer and nearer it came, and stopped in front of them.
Jack opened a door in the soap bubble, and in they stepped.
“Good-bye,” cried Bouncing Bet, as Jack closed the door.
“Good-bye!” cried the girls. “Good-bye, kind, lovely fairy folks!”
Jack and Bet threw kisses to them until the bubble floated out of sight over the tops of the trees.
“Oh, Mary Frances,” cried Eleanor after a short silence. “Oh, it was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me!”
“Well, so this is where you girls were hiding!” Billy’s voice made both the girls jump. “My, you gave me a scare! Not a bit of lunch tasted, and not a sign of you!”
“Oh, Billy,” exclaimed Mary Frances, “how you startled me! How’s Mother? Could she—could she come?”