“Hurrah for Miss Smith!” exclaimed Lily, “and what a splendid idea! We never thought of head-covering. Let’s go to work and make little cloth tennis caps and Greek caps for a lot of the bare-headed young persons. They’re easy to make, and I know how to cut them out.”
That suggestion was well received, and the work was immediately begun; but Lily was not too much absorbed in cutting out the caps to ask for more particulars from Bell and Fannie.
“Yes; whom did you see?” said Katie, remembering her own disappointment at not being elected one of the shoppers.
“We saw Miss Smith,” said Fannie, teasingly.
“Well, I should say you did, by the pile of ribbons you bought. It was real good in her to give so much for the money; but who else did you see?”
“A young and blooming stranger,” said Fannie.
“Gracious! Was she a friend of Miss Smith?”
“Not she, but he.”
“For pity’s sake, a man, a young man? Why, what do you expect Mrs. Abbott to say to you hapless girls if you have been meeting a young man?”
“We couldn’t help meeting him,” said Fannie.