“To say nothing of all you told and showed us,” added Phil.
“The more you know Sallie, the less attention you will pay to her opinions,” declared Ted. “Bet there’s something in one of her letters that has made her mad, and she’s taking it out on us. ’Fess up, now, Sallie, isn’t it so?”
“It is. Nell and Tom say they are coming out to visit us.”
At the announcement the younger boy danced about in impish glee.
“I knew it. I knew it was something like that!” he chuckled.
“Write and say we can’t have them. Say we’re sick or starving—anything that will make them stay at home,” snapped Phil.
To Andy, Joy, and Jennie this outburst was incomprehensible, for it seemed to them that a visit from their friends in the East would be most welcome, and in her ingenuousness Jennie asked:
“Aren’t they nice people that you don’t want them?”
“They are nice, Jennie, very nice,” laughed Ted, who enjoyed the situation thoroughly. “That’s not the trouble. But I’ll tell—”
“Keep quiet,” growled Phil.