"He could have talked old Ponsonby Pore into letting Annie come, I just know," said Dee.
"Maybe we could do the same thing," I suggested.
"Harvie says nothing will move him."
"Well, one thing sure, we can go to see Annie and he can't drive us out, not after he has visited us at the beach. He'll just have to be polite to us."
"Can't she come up in the evening? Surely she must stop keeping store sometimes," asked Mary.
"Country stores never close. At least the one near us never does. They might miss the sale of a box of matches or a stick of candy. I used to think, when I was a little girl, that I would rather keep a store than do anything in all the world. I talked about it so much that Mammy Susan got right uneasy about me."
"Well, Harvie and Sleepy are blue enough about it, so we must cheer up," said Dee. "We are to be here two weeks and if we behave real well maybe they will ask us for longer, and surely in that time we can make that old stickinthemud come around. Zebedee could think up a way in a minute."