"I ain't roamin'. I can't go off of this block, 'cause mamma and Aunt Fee are in the store there, buyin' things."
"But we thought you'd gone to Florida?"
"Oh, we're goin' there one of these days, I s'pose, 'cause that's where we started for; but mamma says it's hard to get away from Old Point, because she keeps findin' old friends there."
"Does Fenie find any?" discreetly asked Kate.
"She doesn't need to," was the reply, "for she keeps findin' new ones all the time. Say, army officers is real nice; don't you think so?"
"So I've always heard," said Kate, while Harry looked so unhappy that his sister pinched him until he complained. Just then Trif came out of the shop, wondering whether Trixy did not need looking after; but she lost none of her self-possession when she found herself face to face with the Trewmans. Within five minutes Trif had made the Trewmans promise to run over to Old Point before they returned to New York. She begged them, also, to return with her to the shop, and surprise Fenie, but Harry pleaded extreme haste—a matter of business, he said.
"Still," said Kate, "we may yet surprise her if you won't allude to us until you meet us at Old Point."
"That will be splendid," exclaimed Trif, with glowing cheeks; for she was thinking over the scene with Harry's picture.
"Harry," said Kate, as soon as the party separated, "you've no reason to worry."