"I wonder if we ought to bring along something for evening wear?"
"Anyhow we want something warm."
"And what about shoes—or boots? How would it do to wear leggings, like the boy scouts?"
"I'm sure we won't want anything like evening dresses. Where could we wear them up in the wilderness?"
"Why, perhaps there may be a lumbermen's dance."
"Oh, listen to Mollie! As if we'd go!"
"Why not? Of course we could go if we had a chaperone," and Mollie, who had proposed this, looked rather defiantly at her chums.
The other foregoing remarks had been shot back and forth so quickly, in such zig-zag fashion, that it was difficult to tell who said which; in many cases the authors themselves being hardly able to identify their verbal creations.
The girls were at the home of Grace, discussing, as they had been doing ever since it was practically decided that they were to go to camp, what they should take, and what to wear. It was far from being settled yet.
"Well, I'm sure of one thing," remarked Grace, "and that is that, as Amy says, we ought to have at least two warm cloth dresses."