"Oh, Mary got the giggles! Mary would laugh at her own funeral. Peggy was so cross at her. Fraulein traced the giggles to Mary's trunk." At that instant the door opened and Mary came in, followed by Peggy. "What did you get this time, Mary?" Carita asked. Mary, laughed sheepishly. "You talk as if I'd been sentenced," she said, smiling, and showing every one of her beautiful teeth. "Weren't you?" "No, not this time. Miss North was so disgusted she didn't do a thing. She made us feel as if we were infants; said she thought smothering in a trunk for an hour was punishment enough for anybody. She just talked!" "And--_talked_!" Peggy added. "She said that we'd so wrecked Fraulein's nerves--Peg and I--that Fraulein was leaving the school--wasn't coming back after Easter." "Really? Is that true, Peggy?" "That we've wrecked her nerves? Hardly. That's just letting her down easy. Miss North's dead tired of her, herself." "Who's going to take her place?" "Miss North didn't take us into her confidence," Mary said flippantly. "But I shouldn't wonder if Joy Cross substituted until they get somebody. Joy's a whiz in German. She's had us two or three times lately when Fraulein was having one of her tantrums--beg pardon, nervous break-ups." Blue Bonnet rose to go. "Wait a minute, Blue Bonnet," Carita said. "I've some news for you. What do you think! Knight Judson's coming to Boston; my cousin, you know. He's coming with your Uncle Cliff. I've just had a letter." "Knight Judson! What for?" "He's always wanted to come, and now he has the opportunity. He's been wild to study engineering, saved his money for it for a long time. Well--he had a chance to come on and do a little work at the Massachusetts Tech. It's awfully late in the year, of course, to enter, but he wants to look up a lot of things and be ready to start in the fall. I'm so anxious to see him. He'll have so much news from home." "And Sandy? Why didn't he come, too?" "He will, next year." "It will be fine to see Knight again," Blue Bonnet said. "Alec will be delighted to know he's coming. They were great friends in Texas." "Yes, Knight is going to Washington first, then on to Woodford for a few days, with Alec." "How splendid! Oh, Carita, everything is going so beautifully that it almost makes me afraid. I feel as if the fairies had given me three wishes and they had all come true. I don't know whether I can walk down-stairs or not. I feel like taking a flying leap." "Take the banister," Mary suggested. "It's safer, and heaps more fun. I tried it yesterday." Blue Bonnet looked properly shocked. "Fortunate you didn't run into any one," she remarked. "But I did! A nice lady who was trying to find Madam de Cartier. We fell--all in a heap!" * * * * * The morning of the first of April broke clear and calm. "Even the weather is on my side," Blue Bonnet said. "I ought to be the very happiest girl in the world--and I am!"