CHAPTER XVIII.
"Yes, I suppose that is the best thing for me to do; but oh, Hope! you don't know, you can't think how I dread it."
"Yes, I can think;" and Hope laughed a little.
"She'll be so angry she'll say horrid things to me."
"Yes, you may count on that."
"When would you tell her?"
"I'd go now and tell her this very minute, it ought to be done at once."
"Oh, dear! well, I'll take your advice, and you'll wait for me here, won't you?"
"Yes, I'll wait for you here and study up my history lesson."
"All right; and wish me courage and success." Then, with a little nod and a rueful smile, Kate Van der Berg went on her mission to Dorothea; for it had finally, after much consultation between the three friends, been thought best for Kate to go straight to Dorothea and appeal to her.