"No boys!" echoed Bess, between uncertain mouthfuls.

Daisy Bennet turned her head away in evident disapproval.

"No boys," she repeated faintly. Daisy did everything faintly.
She was a perfectly healthy young girl, but a little affected
otherwise - too fond of paper-covered books, and perhaps too fond
of other sorts of romance. But we must not condemn Daisy - her
mother had the health-traveling habit, and what was Daisy to do
with herself?

Cora handed around some lettuce sandwiches.

"I am just as keen on boys as any of you," she admitted, "but for
a real motor girl tour it is apparent that boys will have to be
tabooed."

Bess grunted, Belle sighed, Cecilia bit her tongue, Ray raised her
eyebrows, Hazel made a "minute" of the report.

"And silence ensued," commented Cecilia, reaching back of Maud and
securing a dainty morsel from the lunch-box of the latter.

"Water?" called Bess.

"Yes," chimed in Cecilia, "go and fetch some."

"The spring is away down the other side of the hill," objected
Bess.