"And you'll stay, won't you? Don't you think you'd enjoy it?"
"Oh, ever so much! but I don't believe I can wait any longer than till to-morrow to see mamma. Besides, I don't know whether she would approve."
"Well, if you should spend a day at home and get her consent to come back; how would that do?"
Vi thought that plan might answer, if Edward were willing to make one of the party at the cottage.
"We must consult the lads at once," said Mary. "Let me help you dress, and we'll go in search of them."
Vi sprang up, and with her cousin's assistance made a rapid toilet.
They found Edward and Charlie in the summer-house, just across the road, waiting for the call to dinner. Fortunately no one was within hearing, and Mary quickly unfolded her plan.
It was heard with delight. "Splendid! Capital! Of course we'll be glad to accept your invitation," they said: Edward, however, putting in the provision, "If mamma sees no objection."
"Or grandpa," added Violet.
"All the same," said Edward; "mamma never approves of anything that he does not."