Only a hope in my heart, too deep to be
rooted out, that some day--"
"So--me day! So--ome day!" chanted Patty in a trilling voice, and
Ken smiled in his old, friendly fashion.
"He is awfully nice," Patty said to Nan, afterward, "when he isn't
proposing. There's something about Ken you can't help liking."
And Nan smiled and said, "That's so."
The days flew along, the spring frocks materialised and the grass
and flowers began to be beautiful up at Fern Falls.
Patty went up there a few days before the first of May, and was
welcomed by the Kenerleys with vigorous and jubilant greetings.
"You dear!" exclaimed Adele, as after a rapturous hug she held Patty
off to look at her. "I do believe you're prettier than ever!"
"It's the happiness of coming up here," said Patty, smiling. "I'm so
glad to come, Adele. The country in spring,--and all that, you
know."
"Yes," said Adele, laughing. "You know what the Boston girl said:
'Oh, I just LOVE nature! It ADDS so!' You're like that, aren't you,
Patty?"
"Exactly! but spring is all over the city, too. They're selling
flowers on every street corner, and all the pedestrians wear big
bunches of violets or daffodils or magnolias or something.
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