I want you all to think hard to-night, to see if we have forgotten anything." "The only thing we have forgotten is our dinner.

We haven't had a bite to eat since morning," Margery Brown reminded her friends.
"Margery can't think of anything but thomething to eat," laughed Tommy.
"You mutht learn to eat atmothphere when you're hungry.

That ith the way I do." "I fear you will never grow fat on that sort of diet," laughed the guardian.
"I don't want to get fat, like Buthter," replied Tommy scornfully.
In the meantime Harriet and Jane had drawn away from the others and were engaged in a whispered conversation.

Then the two girls got into the rowboat dragged the houseboat out into the lake, a few rods, and anchored it.

They did not explain their action.