"Why, of course," declared Viola. "Didn't Mr. White say so?"
"Oh, I suppose he did. That is—I really had not looked at it that way. I thought it was some kind of joke."
But Tom had said, "Yes," Nat told him they had been arrested! And Tom Burbank never intended to say anything of the kind! Viola Green with her pretty clothes and pretty looks had "put the words into his mouth and had taken them out again!"
"We must be going!" said Viola, leaving her seat beside the little fish pond in the park. "I suppose I shall see you at the lawn party?"
"If I am invited?"
"Then I invite you now. You need not say you got my invitation before the others were out—but be sure to come!"
CHAPTER X
A LAWN PARTY "WITH BOYS!"
The day was perfect—an item of much importance where lawn parties are concerned. Dorothy and Tavia were kept in ignorance of the testimonial that had been arranged in their honor, and were now, at one hour before the appointed time, dressing for an afternoon with Alice. Ned and Nat were to go with them and then—