Mr. Sanders laughed. “I can see you are all enthused, Brook. But why buy a place as long as we stand in with the Allens? This suits me.”
“Me too,” said Brook. “Let’s do this every summer.”
“Anybody want any fudge?” asked Marjorie and Judy. “We’ve just made some.”
“I never say no to fudge,” said Brook picking out the biggest piece before Alf or Jimmy could get it.
“You’d better leave at least one piece for me,” Alf said.
“There’s plenty more in the kitchen,” said Judy, “and we’re bringing in a big pitcher of lemonade, too.”
Alf went into the kitchen with Judy to carry out the lemonade and Marjorie brought in another dish of fudge.
“Nuts to the nutty,” quoted Marjorie from one of her brother’s favorite expressions, as she passed him the dish.
Jimmy, Alf and Brook spent the afternoon out in the motorboat, to get away from the girls and to make their plans. A great deal had happened to all of the boys since they had last seen each other and they had a lot of catching up to do.