She did
very well, for she had had some practice in a small motor boat the
girls occasionally hired.
"Oh, I couldn't have had anything in the world I wanted more than
this!" she cried to her uncle. "It is just great!"
"And you think you girls will go for a cruise?"
"I am sure we will, and as soon as we can. It will be the very thing
for the hot summer."
"Wouldn't Will just love this?" sighed Grace.
"Perhaps Betty will invite him and Allen Washburn and Percy Falconer
to come along on a trip or two," said Mollie, with a wink at her chums
as she mentioned Percy's name. The latter was a foppish young man
about town, who tried to be friendly with Betty; but she would have
none of him.
"Never Percy!" she declared. "I'll ask Will, of course, and Frank
Haley, but---- "
"Not Allen?" inquired Amy, mischievously, for it was no great secret
that Betty really liked Allen, a young law student, and that he was
rather attentive to her.
"Which way shall I steer to pass that boat, Uncle?" asked Betty, to
change a subject that was getting too personal.
"Port," he answered briefly.
"And that is----" she hesitated.
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