“That our wish has come true, just as if we had rubbed Aladdin’s lamp. We wished for a dinner and we got it.”
“We haven’t got it yet,” said Elinor sceptically.
But Nancy was a very superstitious young person, who put infinite faith in the Rule of Three.
“We shall have it in an hour. That’s what Takamini told us just now. And if two wishes come true, three will, so I’m going to make another.”
“But what is the second wish, Nancy-Bell?” they asked.
“Didn’t we all of us wish not to be homesick?”
“We didn’t say so.”
“Well, anyway, we thought so. And thinking is the same as speaking. That wish has come true because the homesickness has all gone, hasn’t it?”
They were obliged to admit that it had. The adventure had dispelled their doleful vapors.
“We should all unite on the third wish, then,” said Mary, “seeing that the other wishes were common to everybody.”