I believe that if you'd been at this house party from the beginning, you'd have been playing with us by this time, like Bobby and the other boys.
"I must show this ring to the girls," she said, presently, when they heard Mrs.Sherman coming back.

Then she hesitated, her eyes sparkling with the pleasure of a sudden thought.
"Oh, papa, I'd like to give Lloyd and Joyce and Betty each a ring like mine, to help them remember, you know, and as a souvenir of the house party.

Don't you think that would be nice?
I have scarcely touched my allowance this month.

Couldn't we go to the city to-morrow and get them ?" "Yes, I think so," answered her father.

"We'll ask Cousin Elizabeth about the trains." Early next morning Mr.Forbes and Eugenia went into the city on their little excursion, and scarcely had they gone when a telegram arrived from Mr.Sherman, saying he would be home on the noon train.