This was another embarrassing moment! The boys were not generally included among aristocratic Miss Linn's young guests.
"I don't believe we should know anybody there except by sight," said Robert Clark at length.
"It will be a good chance to get acquainted with everybody, then," Gay replied.
"I don't think we can go, anyway, because we've got a game to-morrow afternoon," said Lyman.
"Ball?" questioned Gay.
"Yes," Lyman answered.
"Put it off till day after to-morrow and I'll come," said Gay.
"Do you know anything about ball?" asked Fred Brown, wondering secretly if there was anything that this wonderful girl wasn't up to.
"If you can get on to my curves I'll give you the dandiest bat you ever held in your hands," Gay said, with great enthusiasm.