“So did I,” said Jane. “It was fun catching Mrs. Gabriel and saving the diamonds, but I’d rather have had a beautiful bed of flowers.”
“Do all the Brownies feel the same way about tulips?” inquired Mr. Van Der Lann. “Would they rather have them than any other flower?”
“Oh, yes!” cried Vevi. “But it is impossible. We will have to wait until next year.”
“And that is a million years away,” sighed Sunny.
“Perhaps not,” said Mr. Van Der Lann. He smiled in a most mysterious sort of way.
“What do you mean?” questioned Vevi alertly.
“Just you wait!” he advised. “Not a year either.”
Now the Brownie Scouts sensed immediately that their friend had something special in mind. They teased him to tell what it was.
Mr. Van Der Lann only smiled and shook his head.
“I can guess!” laughed Hanny.