[Patty at Home by Carolyn Wells]@TWC D-Link bookPatty at Home CHAPTER XIX 7/12
I'd be perfectly delighted.
I'll do my best to get tired, just so you'll take us." "But if I remember your reports of your Barlow cousins, it seems to me they would not make the most desirable travelling companions.
Aren't they the ones who were so helter-skelter, never were ready on time, never knew where things were, and, in fact, had never learned the meaning of the phrase 'Law and order' ?" "Yes, they're the ones, and truly they are something dreadful.
Don't you remember they had a party and forgot to send out the invitations? And the first night I reached there, when I went to visit them, they forgot to have any bed in my room." "Yes, I thought I remembered your writing to me about some such doings; and do you think you can enjoy a month with such visitors as that ?" "Oh, yes, papa, because they won't upset _my_ house; and, really, they're the dearest people.
Oh, I'm awfully fond of Bob and Bumble I And Nan Allen is lovely.
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