“You wouldn’t have much fun at this party, dears,” she told the disappointed youngsters. “The children who are asked are several years older than you; I’ll tell you what we’ll do when Meg and Bobby go to the party. We’ll have one of our own. Dot may set the dolls’ table and Norah will give her something good to eat and I will come upstairs and play with you myself. How will that please you?”
The twins loved to have Mother Blossom play with them and they did not mind about the party with such a pleasant day to look forward to. Although New Year’s Day was nearly a week off, Dot teased Norah to tell her what they could have to eat and Twaddles helped to set the doll table so many times that he broke two of the cups and saucers.
“Going to Charlotte Gordon’s party?” asked Fred Baldwin when he met Bobby in the grocery store the morning after the invitations had been sent out. “You are? So’m I. But what do you think, she’s asked Tim Roon and Charlie Black. I wouldn’t have them at my birthday party last summer; they’re too mean to invite to a party, I think.”
“Maybe Charlotte is polite ’cause she is a girl,” ventured Bobby.
“Shucks, it’s just because they’re in our class,” retorted Fred. “She could have left them out, as well as not. But she invited every single boy and girl. Meg’s the only one asked outside the class.”
Meg was much pleased when she heard this.
“I think Charlotte is lovely,” she said. “And why shouldn’t she invite Tim Roon and Charlie Black? I guess they like to go to parties.”
“Well, I hope they know how to act,” remarked Bobby. “But I don’t believe they do.”
New Year’s Day finally came—though Meg and Bobby thought it never would—and in the afternoon they went gaily off to Charlotte’s party. Very nice they looked, too, Meg in a white wool frock and wearing blue hair-ribbons and her beloved blue locket which she had lost and found the winter before. Bobby wore his best suit and shiny patent leather shoes.
“We’re going to have a party, too!” the twins called after them, and Meg and Bobby turned to wave their hands to show that they understood.