"I'll give him a bushel of kisses!" cried Lois rapturously, whereupon they kissed her all round while Nettie looked on enviously at the stir the little maid was making.
"I wonder why when I'm naughty I get a scolding instead of kisses," she confided to Claude.
"I suppose it's because you've never been quite that naughty, though you've been pretty bad," he said, which latter assurance consoled his chum.
CHAPTER XXVII
IN THE TOWER
Later in the evening when the smaller children had gone home, some of the others proposed a visit to the tower room to view the sunset, and a gay crowd scurried up the stairs.
Ivy, who could climb the stairs almost as nimbly as her mates, lingered in the rear with Jack Lever.
"It's pretty hard lines," he remarked smilingly, answering her sympathetic expression.
"Yes, indeed, but you will be all right in no time! Just be thankful it won't last for years and years!"