"
"I'll tell him you didn't want me to come, that I came of my own
accord," offered Nancy Ellen.
"And he won't believe you," said Kate.
"Would you consent for me to go?" asked Robert Gray.
"Certainly not! I can look out for myself."
"What shall you do?" asked Nancy Ellen anxiously.
"That is getting slightly ahead of me," said Kate. "If I had been
diplomatic I could have evaded this until morning. Adam, 3d, is
to be over then, prepared to take me anywhere I want to go. What
I have to face now is a way to spend the night without letting the
neighbours know that I am turned out. How can I manage that?"
Nancy Ellen and Robert each began making suggestions, but Kate
preferred to solve her own problems.
"I think," she said, "that I shall hide the telescope under the
privet bush, there isn't going to be rain to-night; and then I
will go down to Hiram's and stay all night and watch for Adam when
he passes in the morning. Hiram always grumbles because we don't
come oftener."
"Then we will go with you," said Nancy Ellen. "It will be a
pleasant evening walk, and we can keep you company and pacify my
twin brother at the same time.
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