"She's in town."
"Why didn't you bring her out with you?"
"Didn't know you wanted her. She said she'd like to stay in Lake City over Sunday, to take the Communion."
"Take the Communion indeed! She wants to be left there alone with Margaret, so that she'll have a chance to flirt with every man in town. I thought you had more sense, David."
I pulled my soft felt hat further over my diminished head.
"Did she get any letters?"
"One or two."
"Wretch! I told her to come out here with you to-night for certain."
Monday morning, mother, who had been spending the summer with my married sister in Lake City, came out to stay for a week with us at Interlaken.
She could hardly wait till the youngsters were out of hearing to pour her story into my ears. I had to take back to town the train by which she had come out, but she made the most of her time.