"That's the way they usually talk." "I am so disappointed at not seeing Emma here, too," sighed Grace Harlowe.

"It seems ages since we said good-bye to each other at Overton.
You don't suppose anything has happened to her, do you, Elfreda ?" "Of course not.

Take my word for it, she'll be here before we are a day older.

There, that finishes the decorations." Elfreda triumphantly fastened into place the last of a quantity of Chinese lanterns that she and her friends had been stringing about the grounds, viewing the work with a sigh of satisfaction.

"These won't give much light, but they'll look pretty.