I really began to enjoy myself very much,--only
that I didn't hear often enough from home. Nora's notes were very
short,--just scraps; she said she was too busy to write more; and Jack
never has shone as a letter writer. He'd say, "Nora had a circus with
the 'kids' to-day,--will tell you about it when you come home;" or,
"Something splendid has happened for Fee,--you shall have full
particulars when you get back," and other things like that. Provoking
boy! when I was longing to hear everything.
After the Endicotts came, I enjoyed myself so well that the time flew
by, and almost before I knew it the last day but one of my visit at the
beach had come. That afternoon, instead of going with Mrs. Endicott,
Alice, and Hilliard, to see how the repairs were getting on at their
cottage, I decided to remain at home. Thinking it over afterward, I
could not have explained why I did not care to go; I didn't even
remember the excuse I made. It could not have been the heat,--though it
was extremely warm,--for a little while after they had gone I dressed
for dinner, and started for a stroll along the beach.
[Illustration: "ON WARM MORNINGS WE WOULD SIT ON THE BEACH.
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