you must all come back to the house at one o'clock for the
birthday dinner, and it's well after eleven now. She sent your
clock, Miss Midget, so you'll know when to come."

Apparently Jane knew more about the ways and means of "Breezy Inn"
than the children did; for she directed them explicitly how to let
down the dumbwaiter, and, then, after having carefully placed on
it the tray of good things and the clock, she advised them about
drawing it up. It worked almost like a well-bucket and was quite
easy to manage. The tray reached the top in safety, and, in great
glee, the girls arranged the little feast on the table in the
living-room, and sat down to play tea-party.

"Isn't this lovely!" exclaimed Molly, as she took her seventh
ginger-snap from the plate. "I don't see how your grandma knew
that we were beginning to get hungry."

"Grandma always seems to know everything that's nice," said
Marjorie. "Some day, girls, let's come out here and spend the
whole day. We'll bring a lot of lunch, you know, and it will be
just as if we lived here."

"Goody!" said Molly. "That will be heaps of fun. We'll all bring
things; I know Mother will give me a pie."

"I'll like it," said Stella, with an expression of great
satisfaction; "because up here you girls can't romp around so and
run as you do down on the ground. When we come for a whole day
let's bring a book of fairy stories and take turns reading aloud."