“I’d like to see it,” said Rodney. “Will you show it to me some day, Kitty?”
“Yes, any day you say.”
“He will walk you to death,” warned Tad. “I say, fellows—and young ladies—wouldn’t it be fun to take some lunch and go down there some day? Have a sort of picnic, you know. What do you say?”
“We’d love to!” cried Matty. “Wouldn’t we, May?”
“Love to,” echoed May ecstatically. “But I don’t suppose mama would let us do it,” she added doubtfully.
“I wonder if she would,” mused her sister. “Anyway, we could ask her. When would we go, Tad?”
“Why, I don’t know. You fellows have practice in the afternoons, don’t you? We might go some Saturday morning and get back about two. We could hire a rig——”
“Oh, it would be so much more fun to walk,” said Matty.
“Walk! All the way there and back?” Tad groaned. Then, with a shrug of his shoulders, “All right. I’m game if you are. Will you come along, Kitty?”
“Thanks. Like it very much.” Kitty looked both surprised and gratified at being included.