Again Cleo smiled. Numè wished she would say something.
"You lig' me?" she prompted, encouragingly.
"Yes——"
"Foraever an' aever?"
"Well—yes—I guess so."
"How nize!" she clapped her hands and Koto came through the parted shoji.
"Now I interducing you to my mos' vaery nize friens, Mees Tominago Koto."
Koto was as anxious as Numè to please, and as she had seen Numè hold her two hands out in greeting, she did the same, very sweetly.
About an hour later Mrs. Davis, with Tom and Sinclair, looked in at the three girls. Cleo was sitting on the mats with Koto and Numè, and they were all laughing.