Anne demonstrated her words and the city girls saw a low bed opened before their wondering eyes. The pillows and bedding were neatly folded and kept in a long shallow drawer under the sofa.
"How awful—to sleep on that!" cried Barbara. "It looks like great fun!
May I sleep here, Anne?" said Eleanor.
"Indeed you shall not! You will sleep with me!" snapped Barbara. Then turning to Anne again, she added: "Where are the wardrobes?"
"Those curtains hide the shelves we will use. You will find nails driven into the board against the wall."
"What! hang our expensive clothes on these common nails!—With only a calico drapery to protect them!" gasped Barbara.
"Leave your expensive clothes in the trunks, then. I am," laughed
Eleanor.
"Nolla, I will need all of this one for myself; Anne and you will have to share the other one between you," remarked Barbara.
"I thought you were leaving on the early train to-morrow?" teased
Eleanor, quickly.
To avoid another quarrel, Anne hastily said: "Oh, I forgot about the trunks. What shall I tell Mr. Brewster?"
"Tell him anything you like about Nolla's, but leave mine where the man can pick them up readily, to-morrow, when I leave," returned Barbara, in a nonchalant manner.