To Grace's satisfaction, she accepted without a protesting word.

She remembered only that Jean, the hunter, had known her father and she had a wistful desire to take old Jean by the hand for her father's sake.

Arline had promised to spend Easter with Grace, but her father had planned a trip to the Bermudas for her and Ruth.

Realizing that it would be best for Ruth to go to Oakdale, she cheerfully put aside her own personal desire for Ruth's companionship and urged Ruth to go home with Grace.
Elfreda had accepted Laura Atkins's invitation to spend Easter with her, and was already convulsing the three Oakdale girls with excerpts from conversations to take place, supposedly, between herself and Laura's learned father.

"I have been reading up a lot on the pterodactyl and ichthyosaurus and other small, playful animals of the beginning of the world variety," she confided to Miriam.