"No wonder you don't like them!" she exclaimed. "Of all the sillies! Why, Janet, they are what old-fashioned books call stuck up." She laughed until the tears rolled down her cheeks. "I wish we could have them at school for about a month; they would learn so many things, and how I'd love to help teach them." "If you think they're funny, what must you think of me?" Janet spoke, without thinking and regretted it at once. Phyllis eyed her reproachfully. "I don't think that's a very nice thing to say to your sister," she said slowly. "How could I think you anything but the most wonderful girl in the world when I've been longing for you all these years." "Longing for me?" Janet queried in surprise. "Yes, longing for you!" Phyllis returned with spirit, "and that's more than you can say about me." "It's no such thing," Janet denied hotly. "I have wanted a sister always. Why, I wrote Tom and told him I wished he'd been a girl instead of a boy." "Oh, you darling, did you really?" Phyllis returned to her gay self in a flash. "Isn't it just like a story? I wanting you, oh, so much, and you wanting me, and now here we are. I don't see what in the world we are fussing about, do you?" "Then let's stop," Janet said wisely. "Shall I drive you to Mrs. Todd's house?" "Yes, do; I want to see the big room you were telling me about. Auntie Mogs has a lovely library, so you won't miss your Kingdom so very much when you come to town." "Come to town?" Janet inquired. "But I'm not going to town, am I?" "Of course you are," Phyllis insisted. "I heard Tommy and Auntie Mogs talking about it on the train and again this morning. Gracious, you don't suppose that now I've found you I'm going to ever let you out of my sight, do you?" "But how can I go to town?" "Well, why in the world can't you?" "But grandmother?" "Oh, don't worry about that. Tommy will take care of it. Anyway you're coming, and we are going to school together; and, oh, Janet,"--Phyllis broke off impatiently--"aren't you the least little bit excited about it?" "Excited! I could scream from excitement only I'm breathless, and my mind is all upside down," Janet replied, laughing. "Well, thank goodness!"--Phyllis was comforted. "I was afraid you really didn't want to come, and I was just having fits, for of course I told all the girls about you, and they are nearly as excited as I am. Where have you been going to school? I asked Tommy, but he didn't know." "I've never been to school, real school, in my life," Janet confessed. "Grandmother has always had a tutor come every day from Swanet--that's the next town to us. I don't suppose I know very much and I'll probably be years behind you, but perhaps I can catch up." "Years behind! Nonsense, I haven't any brains," Phyllis said, "and I don't really care very much. The girls at school that are really brainy are awfully stupid; that is--oh, you know what I mean."