Silently Tim gave her her locket and Meg was so glad to get it back she thanked Tim as though he had found it for her.
“If you don’t say anything about it, Meg won’t,” Mr. Gordon told him. “I don’t like Charlotte’s party to be disturbed and I would rather she did not know what a mean boy she has invited as a friend. Come, Meg, we’ll go back before they begin to wonder where you are.”
Bobby had been looking for Meg and he was surprised to see her come in with Mr. Gordon. It was almost time to go home and after they had unwound the spider web of strings which brought them each a gift, the party was over.
“I hope you’ll have a party every day in the year,” said Palmer Davis, trying to be very polite when he said good-bye to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon.
“That would give us a gay new year, if not a happy one, wouldn’t it?” Mrs. Gordon answered him laughingly. “Well, you should all be invited, my dears.”
CHAPTER XIV
DOT READS A STORY
MEG told Bobby about her locket as they walked home and he was very indignant.
“Just let me catch that Tim Roon!” he said wrathfully. “He’s always trying to bother someone. I don’t believe you would ever have got your locket back if it hadn’t been for Mr. Gordon.”
“Oh, Tim wouldn’t keep it—that would be stealing,” said Meg who liked to think the best of everyone. “He only wanted to tease me; I know he would have let me have it after a while. But I was afraid he would lose it or break it.”
New Year’s Day was, of course, on Tuesday just a week after Christmas, and school was to open the next Monday. So Meg and Bobby determined to have all the fun they could before they had to go back to lessons.