I'll take the responsibility.

I'm sure I am old enough, and it's all right for us to go when three big boys are with us." The others could not hear what passed between the two.

Eugenia coaxed and wheedled and sneered by turns, and finally Lloyd yielded, and they all started in.

All but Betty.

She waited in the lane alone, riding up and down, up and down, for ages it seemed to her, waiting for them to come back.
In reality it was not quite an hour that she kept her solitary vigil in the lane.