But Margery looked greatly excited.
"Is he the one Miss Isabel was going to marry, ever so long ago, when she was going to live in that house near yours, Jack?" she asked.
"Right you are, Peggy," said Jack. "He's come back to take Miss Isabel away, I'll bet you, and so he is a robber, and we were right in the first place."
Trix assented cordially.
"He'd better not try to take Miss Isabel off!" she said fiercely.
Amy and Margery took another view.
"May be she likes him, and would be glad to see him again," said Amy. "Maybe she'd rather have him come back."
And Margery said firmly: "I don't want any one to take Miss Isabel away, but if she would be happier, we must not say one word."
"Much he'd care what we said," muttered Jack wrathfully.
"Yes," said Margery, "but we mustn't say it anyway. We'll go to see him, for he asked us to, and we'll see if he is nice, and then we won't care if he does marry Miss Isabel. We'll be glad because she's glad, and we won't let her know once how we feel about it."