“Of course, I told you we’d be all night on the train.”
“Why doesn’t mother want to go?”
“She doesn’t want to leave her friends and she doesn’t want to live way off on a farm where there isn’t any church close by and only a country school. What do you think, the school house has only one room and one teacher? You’d be in the same room with me. Father says he’ll have to prepare me for college at home. I have to begin Latin next year. Gee, I bet Father’ll make me study. He thinks if you haven’t got a lesson perfect, you haven’t got it at all.”
Ernest was standing by the open window idly playing with the lace strap that looped the curtain back.
“Say, there’s Frank and Marian coming in with father now. I wonder what’s up. Bet they’re going to settle the whole business right away.”
The children listened until they heard the others go into the sitting room and carefully close the door behind them—hot weather as it was.
Ernest laughed when the door clicked.
“Family council—children and dogs and neighbors please keep out. They’ll talk till dinner time. I’m going over to see Sherm.”
Jane waited round a while expectantly, studying over the wonderful possibility of moving but finally got tired and went to Halford’s.
When she came home to dinner the sitting-room door was still closed and a steady murmur of voices could be heard.