As Kate came up the path: "Hello!" said Nancy Ellen.

"Wasn't Adam at home ?" "I don't know," answered Kate.

"I was not there." "You weren't?
Why, where were you ?" asked Nancy Ellen.
"Oh, I just took a walk!" answered Kate.
"Right at dinner time on Sunday?
Well, I'll be switched!" cried Nancy Ellen.
"Pity you weren't oftener, when you most needed it," said Kate, passing up the walk and entering the door.

Her mother asked the same questions so Kate answered them.
"Well, I am glad you came home," said Mrs.Bates.

"There was no use tagging to Adam with a sorry story, when your father said flatly that you couldn't go." "But I must go!" urged Kate.