“And I took a cake over to Peg,” Grace was forced to interrupt to make known.
Then it was that Peg again became the pivot of their interest and speculation.
[CHAPTER XIV—THE ALGONQUIN EPISODE]
“We were so surprised to see her aunt along with her,” Julia was recounting. “They seem awfully chummy, don’t they?”
“Yes, it is plain to see they are not—just ordinary folks,” added Cleo. “But even at that I don’t see why she should be so standoffish.”
“I hope she likes my cake. I left it under a turned upside box, put a couple of big stones on it and told Shag not to let anyone touch it,” Grace explained.
“Suppose she wouldn’t care to accept a cake? She said something that night around the campfire, about not accepting things she couldn’t return.” This was Cleo’s contribution.
“If she doesn’t like my cake she can easily return that,” Grace was very emphatic now, “and then perhaps we will desist. No use trying to make friends with folks who insist on snubbing us.”
“But she hasn’t snubbed us yet,” Louise reminded the first speaker.
“Oh, no, I know that. I was only saying if she didn’t take the cake.”