[The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Annie Fellows Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookThe Little Colonel: Maid of Honor CHAPTER XIII 30/37
I am glad we are going to take some of them with us to-morrow, and wish--" Betty, who had turned to listen, because his smiling glance seemed to include her in the conversation, failed to hear what it was he wished. Bernice Howe, who was standing with her back to her, took occasion just then to draw Miss Bonham aside, and her voice, although pitched in a low key, was unusually penetrating.
At the same moment the entire party shifted positions to make room for some new arrivals in the waiting-room, and Betty was jostled so that she was obliged to dodge a corpulent woman with a carpet-bag and a lunch-basket.
When she recovered her balance she found herself out of range of Doctor Bradford's voice, but almost touching elbows with Bernice.
She was saying: "We're going to miss you dreadfully, Miss Bonham.
I always do miss Allison's guests and Kitty's nearly as much as my own.
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