wly. "And I can't make myself,
somehow."

"Do you try?"

"Yes, sometimes."

"But why?"

"Because I think I ought to. It seems so thankless of me to go whole
days without even remembering there is such a place."

Phyllis jumped up from the couch, tumbling Galahad to the floor and
threw her arms around her.

"Oh, you darling!" she exclaimed. "I could hug you to death for saying
that. You're such a queer dick that sometimes I get scared to death
and think surely you are pining for the country, and then I want to die
of misery. You're so quiet and queer sometimes."

Janet return her twin's hug with interest.

"You want me to be like you," she laughed, "and I never will be. I
suppose I've been quiet so long that it is a habit. I just can't help
thinking long thoughts, I always have, you see, but, oh, Phyl, they're
all happy thoughts these days," [Transcriber's note: line missing from
book.]

"And you don't miss a single person, ever?" Phyllis persisted.

Janet hesitated; she wanted to be quite honest.

"Well," she said at last, "I do miss Peter once in a while; that is, I
wish he were here to talk things over with, and sometimes when I read
something I like awfully much I sort of wish I could tell him about
it," she finished lamely.

Phyllis nodded in perfect understanding. She knew that Peter Gibbs
held the same place in Janet's thoughts that her girl friends held in
hers.

"I wish I had seen him," she mused. "It's so much more fun to talk
about a person you know than to have to imagine all about them.
Whatever possessed him to run away just before I came? I think it was
downright mean of him, and some day I'm going to tell him so."

"Tell him Christmas vacation,"--Janet laughed. "He is going to be with
Mrs. Todd at the Enchanted Kingdom, and so we'll probably see him."

"And so we will probably see him,"--mimicked Phyllis. "I guess there
won't be much doubt about that,"--she yawned, and as if in answer to
her thoughts the clock struck nine.

"Let's go to bed; school to-morrow," she said sleepily. "Thank
goodness Christmas is not so very far away. I'm going to lie in bed
just as late as ever I want to, in Old Chester."

Janet smiled to herself. She pictured Martha's shocked surprise at the
very idea of staying in bed just for the fun of it, but she did not
disillusionize Phyllis.

Monday morning is always a restless time at school, for the girls are
all too busy living over the even