forty-eight girls in the room? I don't see what we are going to do."
"I fancy we can arrange it; don't be distressed, my dear," replied Dr. Carr. And Katy was satisfied: for when papa undertook to arrange things, they were very apt to be done.
It was almost evening when they reached their final stopping-place.
"Now, two miles in the stage, and then we're at the horrid old Nunnery," said Lilly. "Ugh! look at that snow. It never melts here till long after it's all gone at home. How I do hate this station! I'm going to be awfully homesick: I know I am."
But just then she caught sight of the stagecoach, which stood waiting; and her mood changed, for the stage was full of girls who had come by the other train.
"Hurrah! there's Mary Edwards and Mary Silver," she exclaimed; "and, I declare, Rose Red! O you precious darling! how do you do?" Scrambling up the steps, she plunged at a girl with waving hair, and a rosy, mischievous face; and began kissing her with effusion.
Rose Red did not seem equally enchanted.
