“That’s why he said he’d be seeing us shortly,” Randy said.
“I’m glad to hear that, anyway,” Jill murmured.
“When will he be back?” Ted asked.
“Within two or three days, he said,” his mother replied.
“That will be before the class goes on the ...” Jill burst out, then covered her mouth with her hand as she caught herself.
“Before the class goes on what?” Mrs. Kenton asked.
“We’ll have to tell her now,” Jill said lamely to the boys.
“The class is going on a sight-seeing rocket-plane tour of Mars next week,” Ted explained.
His mother looked at Jill curiously. “But why such a secret about it?”
“We just thought you wouldn’t be especially interested,” Jill said, “since we weren’t going.”