“Just think what you’ve saved us!” said the tall, dark-haired girl.
“Of course if it will be any accommodation,” awkwardly put in Ned, “we’ll dance.” He thought he had said the perfectly polite thing.
“He’s going to dance for us!” cried the tall girl, to the others in the hall, and everyone crowded in.
An hour later, trudging home in the bright moonlight, Dorothy sighed: “Weren’t they wonderful!”
“It was decent of them to let us stay and have such fun,” commented Ned.
“And such eats!” mused Nat. And Nat and Ned, with a strangle hold on each other, waltzed down the road.
Happy, but completely tired, the boys and girls plowed through the snow, homeward bound.
CHAPTER VIII
THE AFTERMATH
Christmas day, at dusk, the boys were stretched lazily before the huge fire in the grate, when Dorothy jumped up excitedly:
“Boys, here’s Tavia! And I declare, Bob Niles is with her!”