"Sh!" commanded her chum. "Don't remind folks how frightfully young we are."
ISLAND ADVENTURES
The Marigold loafed along within sight of the beaches that evening and the girls and their friends reclined in the deck-chairs and watched the parti-colored electric lights that wreathed the shore-front. Jessie was careful to keep Henrietta near by. She began to realize that looking after the freckle-faced little girl was going to be something of a trial.
Henrietta finally grew sleepy and Jessie and Amy took her below, helped her undress, and tucked her into a berth. The Roselawn girls' mothers were much amused by this. Their daughters had taken a task upon themselves that would, as Mrs. Norwood said, teach them something.
"And it will not hurt them," Mrs. Drew agreed, with an answering smile. "Amy, especially, needs to know what 'duty' means."
"Anyway, we'll know where she is while she is asleep," Jessie said to her chum, as they left the little girl.
"If she isn't a somnambulist," chuckled Amy. "We forgot to ask Mrs. Foley or Bertha that."