Publisher's Synopsis
"Meg!" The little girl curled up in the window-seat did not move. "Meg, you know Mother said we were to go before four o'clock, and it's half-past three now. You'll wait till the twins come in, and then they'll want to go, too." Bobby Blossom looked anxiously at his sister. Meg put down her book and untangled her feet from the window cushions. "I'm coming," she promised. "I never do get a chapter all read, Bobby. Where's my hat? I see it. I'll get it!" Meg's hat was on the lawn outside where she had dropped it, and now she raised the screen and tumbled through the window to the ground. It wasn't far to tumble, and Meg had done it so often she was sure of landing safely. "Norah says no lady goes out of the house through a window," giggled Bobby, tumbling after Meg and closing the screen carefully. Bobby was always careful to leave everything as he found it. Meg giggled, too. "I don't care, long as I grow up to be a lady like Mother," she asserted. "Let's hurry, Bobby, and perhaps we can stop at the library." The children had reached the two stone posts at the foot of the lawn when a loud shriek halted them.
