CHAPTER XII.
TO EAT WITH THE FAMILY As the two girls entered the house, Miriam clapped her hands.
"What a surprise this will be for Ralph!" she exclaimed.

"He hasn't the slightest idea that you are here, or that anybody is going to spend the night with us.

If Mike said anything about you and your brother,--which I doubt, for he is awfully anxious to get in that hay,--Ralph thought, of course, that you were both gone long ago." The situation suited Dora's fancy admirably.
"Let us make it a regular surprise," she said.

"I am going to help you to get supper, and to do whatever you have to do.

Suppose you don't tell your brother that I am here, and let him find it out by degrees.