"It's a joy to the soul and a discipline to the body, Cousin Roxy says." Anne immediately wanted to know who Cousin Roxy was, and Kit waxed eloquent on her favorite topic.
"She's an angel in a gingham apron, we girls think," she concluded, "and yet she can take off the gingham apron and stand up and address any kind of a meeting.

I just can't tell you all that she's been to us since we lived there." Early in the afternoon Rex returned, and they caught the 2:45 local up to Delphi.

Kit could hardly keep from looking out of the car window all the time.

Every now and then the rich blueness of the lake would flash through the trees in the distance, and to the westward there stretched long level vistas of prairie land, dipping ravines which unexpectedly led one into woodland ways.

Gradually the bluffs heightened as they neared the Wisconsin line above Waukegan, and just beyond the state line, between the shore and the region of the small lakes, Oconomowoc and Delevan, they came suddenly upon Delphi.