At the sound of his own words he fell to thinking.
No, she wouldn’t need to be encouraged. She would be loyal without that. There was nothing to fear on that score at all.
He looked up rather whimsically. “Well, I’ll tell her,” he said.
“You’ll tell her——”
“That she has been invited to visit Mr. and Mrs. Thornburg, and make herself quite at home.”
CHAPTER XVIII
MRS. BARON TAKES UP THE GAUNTLET
Having decided upon what he conceived to be an admirable plan of action, Baron was unwilling to believe that he ought to be in any hurry to execute his plan.
For the time being Bonnie May was getting along very well indeed. In fact, Baron made a point of looking into this matter with a good deal of thoroughness, from a somewhat new angle, and he was greatly pleased by what he discovered.
Little by little the child had become habituated to the home atmosphere. This, of course, was due largely to the fact that the other members of the family had become habituated to having her about. They no longer felt constrained to utter pleasant nothings, or to hold their tongues, because of her presence. When they forgot her “strangeness,” she ceased to be strange.
She obediently and even intelligently attended when Mrs. Baron gave her her lesson on the piano.