Sir Galahad went back in his basket, and the lid was closed and Boru was shut out into the hall. "What under the sun are we going to do with those two!" Phyllis demanded. "They will just have to get used to each other, but I'm afraid it won't be easy," Janet replied. "Boru hates cats." They finished their dressing and consulted Tom at breakfast. "I tell you what to do," he suggested. "You both go off somewhere this morning and leave the live stock with me, when you come back they will both be eating out of the same dish." Janet and Phyllis exchanged glances and shook their heads doubtfully, but they decided to let him try, after they had made him solemnly promise not to let any harm come to either of them. "Where shall we go!" Phyllis demanded. "Shall we take a walk!" "We might take a drive," Janet suggested. "Mrs. Todd sent me word that I could have Clinker whenever I wanted him." "Of course, that's the very thing!" Phyllis enthused. "He is at the rectory, isn't he! Let's go this very instant. I'm crazy to see those Blake girls." Janet had an unhappy moment of doubt. Suppose Phyllis liked the Blakes, what would she do then? But she led the way to the village. She only showed that she was worried by being a little quieter than usual. As Phyllis talked all the way, her silence was not noticeable. Alice and Mildred must have seen them coming down Main Street, for they were at the gate to meet them. Janet introduced them and waited. She expected Phyllis to enthuse as she had been doing ever since her arrival, but a surprise awaited her. From the laughing, bright-eyed youngster Phyllis changed all in the twinkling of an eye into a quiet self-possessed girl. "How do you do? I'm very glad to meet you." She shook hands with Alice and nodded carelessly to Mildred. "We are going for a drive," she went on, still walking toward the barn. "That is, Janet is going to do the driving, and I am going to watch her in real envy." "Don't you know how to drive?" Alice inquired. "Mildred and I really don't care for it, we've done so much of it." Janet watched Phyllis and waited, wondering what she would say to such a silly snubbing. Phyllis looked at both the girls before her and a roguish grin tilted up the corners of her mouth, and then she laughed. It was a merry little laugh, but it made Alice feel very small and very uncomfortable so that she would have given almost anything not to have made her last silly remark. "Aren't you coming in!" Mildred asked hastily. "We'd love to have you." "Not just now, thanks; we are going for a drive, you see." Phyllis smiled and followed Janet into the barn, where the hired man was already harnessing Clinker. Alice and Mildred stayed and talked until they were ready to go. "You'll stop in on your way back, won't you?" Alice almost begged. "Oh, thanks, we will if we have time," Phyllis replied sweetly. Once on the main road and bowling along briskly, she laughed.