After a while Betty proposed taking a walk.
"Where to?" asked Lulu.
"To Sankaty Lighthouse."
"Well, I'm agreed; it's a nice walk; you can look out over the sea all the way," said Lulu, getting up. But a sudden thought seemed to strike her; she paused and hesitated.
"Well, what's the matter?" queried Betty.
"Nothing; only papa told me I was to stay at home to-day."
"Oh, nonsense! what a little goose!" exclaimed Betty; "of course that only meant you were not to go to the 'squantum'; so come along."
Lulu was by no means sure that that was really all her father meant, but she wanted the walk, so suffered herself to be persuaded, and they went.
Betty had been a wild, ungovernable girl at school, glorying in contempt for rules and daring "larks." She had not improved in that respect, and so far from being properly ashamed of her wild pranks and sometimes really disgraceful frolics, liked to describe them, and was charmed to find in Lulu a deeply interested listener.
It was thus they amused themselves as they strolled slowly along the bluff toward Sankaty.