"And there's one thing," went on Belle, with emphasis, so exasperated that she did not see Nick, the clerk, who was waiting for her order, "I wouldn't go away for the summer unless we went to a really fashionable hotel. No, indeed! Cottagers at seaside places are always of such a common sort!"
Amy only laughed. Jessie remained silent. It really did trouble her to have these controversies with Belle. It was not nice and she did not feel right after they were over.
"There is something wrong with us, as well as with Belle," Jessie said once to Amy, on this topic.
"I'd like to know what's wrong with us?" her chum demanded. "I like that!"
"When we squabble with Belle and Sally we make ourselves just as common as they are."
"Tut, tut! Likewise 'go to,' whatever that means," laughed Amy Drew. "Why, child, if we did not keep up our end of any controversy that those girls start they would walk all over us."
However, on this occasion, and at Jessie's earnest desire, Amy hastened the eating of her George Washington sundae and the two friends got out of the shop before Darry and Burd Alling appeared in the car.
"What's the matter?" asked Amy's brother, when the car stopped before the Dainties Shop and he saw his sister and Jessie waiting. "Spent all your money and waiting for us to take you in and treat you?"
"We had ours," Jessie replied promptly, getting into the tonneau.
"Yes, indeed. 'Home, James!'" Amy added, following her chum.