"Mrs.
Denys and I will follow quietly." "Oh no!" laughed Avery.

"You can do the starting, my dear, and I will race with the others." Olive looked at her, faintly contemptuous.

"Oh, of course if you prefer it--" she said.
"I do indeed!" Avery assured her.

"But I think the two big boys and I ought to be handicapped.

Jeanie and Gracie and Pat must go ten paces in front." "I am bigger than Gracie and Pat," said Jeanie.