"I don't care a bit," said Molly. "I like to talk after I'm in
bed, and we shall have ever and ever so long before we get
sleepy."

At breakfast, the next morning, the girls had to bear with much
teasing from the doctor on the subject of their struggles, the
evening before; and, as he rose from the table, he suggested that
they should ask Alan to give them a few lessons in making
bonfires.

"I shan't be back to lunch," he added, as he put his head through
the dining-room door again; "but I'd like dinner on time to-night,
surely, for I must go down to the hospital before my evening
hour."

"I'll tell Mary," said Polly, jumping up to follow him to the
front door, as was her mother's custom.

"Now," she continued, as she went back to the table, "what let's
do all day?"

Their plans were soon formed: a drive with Job in the morning,
for, of late, after many cautions, Polly had been allowed to drive
the old creature; and in the afternoon they would go to see Jean.

"I wonder if Alan wouldn't go with us, this morning," said Polly.

"I think he'd like to," answered Molly. "He caught cold a week
ago, and since then he's been so stiff that he hasn't been
anywhere but just to school and back; and I should think he would