"Grandmother will be delighted with those. She's going to take them to the Old Ladies' Home and start them all to work there."
"Are you sure they'll knit for the children?"
"She's going to ask them to knit for the children now, with bright-colored yarns. Afterwards they can knit for the soldiers, and then they must use dark blue or grey or khaki color—not even a stripe that will make any poor fellow conspicuous."
As they finished reading the instructions they heard the boys tramping upstairs with their paraphernalia.
"It looks to me, Dorothy," said Tom, "as if you had us on your hands for most of these club meetings, to do our work here. Are you sure Mrs. Smith doesn't mind?"
"Mother is delighted," Dorothy reassured him. "And she wants you all to come down and have some chocolate."
CHAPTER VII
FOR A TRAVELLER'S KIT