"Makes me feel like an orphan's home," grumbled Grace, but she laughed
nevertheless with the rest and immediately forgot both her candy and
Dodo in renewed excitement over Wild Rose Lodge.

"Just where is this place, Mollie?" asked Amy. "What is it called?"

"Oh, that's the very best part of it," said Mollie, with a mysterious
smile. "It has the most wonderful, most romantic name. Come closer
while I whisper it-- Moonlight Falls. There, isn't that a real name
for a place?"

"Wild Rose Lodge at Moonlight Falls," sighed Grace ecstatically. "If
we don't have a wildly romantic time in a place with a name like that,
it will be our own fault."

"But we will have to have a chaperon--" Amy was beginning when Betty
interrupted her eagerly.

"I have fixed that," she said, and while they all looked in
astonishment she went on quickly to explain. "I met Mrs. Irving in the
street the other day-- you know she has been away ever since that last
time she was with us on Pine Island-- and I asked her then if she
would chaperon us this summer."

"But you didn't even know then that we were going to Wild Rose Lodge,
Betty," Mollie interrupted.

"I knew we were sure to go somewhere. We always--" Betty was arguing
when Grace cut in impatiently.