Dotty fancied the white curtain moved just a little; but that was because a fly was balancing himself on its folds.

Grandma was not there, or, if she was, she must be very sound asleep.

O, dear, dear! And here were Dotty and her father come home a day earlier than they were expected; and instead of giving the family a joyful surprise, they had a surprise themselves, only not a joyful one, by any means.

How impolite it was in everybody, how unkind, to go away! At first, Dotty had been alarmed; but now her indignation got the better of her fears.

When she _did_ see Prudy again,--the sister who pretended to love her so much,--she wouldn't take the presents out of her trunk for ever so long, just to tease the naughty girl! Meanwhile her father did not appear to be at all disturbed.
"Perhaps they have gone to the Islands, or somewhere else not far away, to spend the day.