Dragon VS Tiger

"I hope not, Bridget."

"Oh, I am sorry!"

"Oh! hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! What will my dear dad say when I tell him that? Biddy O'Hara seventeen! Don't I wish I were! Oh, the lovely balls I'd be going to if those were my years! Now, another guess. It's your turn now—you, little brown one there—I haven't caught your name, darling. Is it Anne or Mary? Most girls are called either Anne or Mary."

Dragon VS Tiger

[Pg 41]"I could not help myself," replied Dorothy. "You know, of course, Janet, what Bridget did last night?"

"Yes, but at what?"

"Now, do let us be sensible," said Janet, turning to her companions. "We have seen all that there is to be seen. However hard we guess we cannot solve the mystery. Either a new companion is coming among us, who, I have no doubt, will be as commonplace as commonplace can be, or Mrs. Freeman is receiving a young lady visitor. Supper will decide the point, and as that is not half an hour away I suppose we can exist for the present without worrying our brains any further."

By this time the preparations for the Fancy Fair were in active progress. Janet May had obtained her own wish with regard to the Committee, each member of which was allowed to choose a band of workers under herself, to make articles for the coming sale.

Dorothy detached herself from Bridget's clinging arm, and ran quickly up the sloping lawn.

She had not passed a pleasant morning, however, and this plan scarcely commended itself to her.