[The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Annie Fellows Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookThe Little Colonel: Maid of Honor CHAPTER X 18/24
The music of their singing, as it floated back to us, was so beautiful, that those of us on the bank stopped talking to listen.
When they came back presently, Kitty and Joyce, Rob and Lieutenant Logan pushed out in it for awhile.
They sang too. "When the little boat came back, Doctor Bradford asked Lloyd to go out with him, and she said she would as soon as she had given her chatelaine watch to her father to keep for her.
The clasp kept coming unfastened and she was afraid she would lose it." Here Betty laid down her pen a moment and sat peering dreamily out between the vines.
She was about to record a little conversation she had overheard between Lloyd and her father as they stood a moment in the bushes behind her, but paused as she reflected that it would be like betraying a confidence to make an entry of it in her journal.
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