"Exactly that!" admitted Cecilia. "I have been searching high and
low for a cheap and economical rig to drive in, and I have just
hit upon this." She pirouetted wonderfully. "All ready made -
the `strained' nurse variety, sure enough. How do you like it?"

"Very becoming," decided Bess.

"And very practical," announced Belle.

"Sweet," declared Cora.

"When you say a good thing, stop," ordered Cecilia, just as Ray
was about to give her verdict.

"And now to the woods," suggested Cora. "We may as well put our
machines up in the open near the grove. We can see them there,
and make sure that no one is tempted to investigate them."

It was a level stretch over the field to the grove. Cora led the
way and the others followed. Lunch baskets and boxes were quickly
gathered up from the machines, and, with the keenness of appetite
common to young and healthy, and "painful" to our fair motorists
(for Cecilia declared her appetite "hurt"), the party scampered
off to an appropriate spot where the lunch might be enjoyed.

"And there are to be no boys?" asked Maud Morris, she with the
"imploring look," as Cecilia put it, although Maud was familiarly
known as a very sweet girl.