I believe you'd have made a good knight yourself if you had lived in those days, because that is one of the things they had to vow, to keep a promise to the utmost." Betty smiled happily, but made no answer.

Rob joined them just then, and they fell to talking of childish things again,--games and pets, and things they had done, and places they had been.

Next morning in her "Good times" book, Betty carefully wrote every word she could remember that Keith had said the evening before, about knights and knightly deeds.

It was a half-hour that she loved to think about.
Miss Allison had invited them all to a picnic at the old mill on the following day.

They were to go in the afternoon and come back by moonlight.