The woman further agreed to provide them with such supplies as they needed.

For such as they took with them the girls paid then and there.

Harriet chuckled all the way back to the island.

She believed that she had planned in such a way as thoroughly to mystify George Baker and his friends, and at the same time convince the latter that the Meadow-Brook Girls were not in trouble.
Reaching the island they found their companions eagerly awaiting them.
To Miss Elting, Harriet confided her plan.

Then, after a happy evening, the houseboat party went to bed, looking forward with keen expectation to what awaited them on the morrow, when Harriet's new plan was to be tried..