We'll have our tea up here, and perhaps Mrs. Perry will be with us.
Let the boys shift for themselves till dinner time, and then they'll
be all the more glad to see us."
Nora brought the tea tray up to the girls, and with it a note.
"I thought they'd holler for us," said Patty, laughing as she read
the note; "listen to this: 'Twin stars of light and joy, DO come
down and illumine our dark and lonesome tea-table! We pine and
languish without you! Oh, come QUICK, ere we fade away! Kit and
Ken.' I thought they'd be lonesome," and Patty nodded her head, with
a satisfied air. "Now you know, Marie, if we've got to take care of
these boys for weeks, we must make them walk a chalk line."
"Yes, of course, Patty; shall we go down, or send a note?"
"Neither," returned Patty, with a toss of her head. "Nora, please
say to the young gentlemen that the young ladies will be down at
dinner time."
"Yes, Miss Fairfield," said Nora, departing.
A few moments later they heard the wailing strains of a violin, and
listening at their door, heard Kit playing, with exaggerated effect.
"Come into the Garden, Maud."
CHAPTER XII
A SURPRISE
"Good gracious, Marie!" exclaimed Patty, popping her head in at
Marie's door, just before dinner time, "we haven't any clothes! Are
you going to wear your party frock or the dress you wore up here?"
"'Deed I'm not going to put on my best gown for a little home
dinner! The dresses we wore up here are all right.
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