When the mother found that he
could not be persuaded to come home with them that night--and Betty
loyally supported him, mindful of the collar--she would not be
satisfied until she had arranged for him to spend the next Saturday
afternoon and Sunday with them at "Fairfields," promising to send the
car in for him at noon, so that he might have lunch with them.
"Betty hasn't tried her riding habit on once," said Mrs. Littell
when Bob had promised to come. "Perhaps when you come out the girls
will find time to give her, her delayed riding lesson. They've been
doing Washington pretty thoroughly."
This reminded Betty of Bobby's plan to visit the roof of the office
building, and Bob had the same thought.
"Couldn't you all come in to-morrow morning and let me take you up
on the roof?" he asked them. "The view is really worth while, and I'm
up there anyway half the morning looking after my employer's
experiments. He is head of a dye house, and is always trying the
effect of sunlight on new shades."
So it was decided that the girls should come in again in the
morning. Then they drove away home, and Bob went on his errand.
Luckily he had been told that he need not return to the office that
afternoon after its completion, or he might have found himself
involved in a maze of explanations and excuses for his lengthy absence.
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