“Now don’t ask me to reveal the secret too soon,” laughed the leader of the Brownies. “Christmas holidays are precious days. Even if your parents were willing, would you really want to go away from Rosedale?”
“You mean for several days?” Jane asked, her breath quite taken away. “Over Christmas?”
“It might mean being gone on Christmas Day,” Miss Gordon admitted soberly. “So far, the plan is not definite.”
“Then if we were gone, we wouldn’t get any Christmas presents,” said Sunny, losing her happy smile.
“That part would be taken care of, I assure you,” Miss Gordon declared. “Naturally, I can’t expect you to say whether you would be willing to leave Rosedale, when I haven’t told you where the troop would go.”
The Brownies looked somewhat relieved and waited anxiously for their leader to continue.
Miss Gordon, however, realized that she had said almost too much.
“I can’t tell you any more about the plan until we meet again,” she said. “Until then, I’ll merely ask you all to think very seriously of the question I have raised. If the answer should be ‘yes’—well, who knows?”