The alternative was
to send them into the village public school, which was attended by
not one single child from the Gardens. The Ingram boys went away
to boarding school at Pomfret, Dorothy Rose boarded in New York,
and the Underbill boys had a tutor, who also had charge of one or
two other boys preparing for college preparatory schools. While
the boys were away Anne drifted about with her mother, or more
often with Agnes, or was allowed to go to play with Cynthia
Biggerstaff or Harriett Fielding.
Chapter Twenty-three
Life spun on. The Bradleys felt that they had never really lived
before. They rushed, laughed, played cards, dressed, danced, and
sat at delicious meals from morning until night. There were so
many delightful plans continually waiting, that sometimes it was
hard to choose between them. The Fieldings wanted them to dine, to
meet friends from Chicago--but that was the same night that the
Roses and Joe Underhill were going in to see the new musical
comedy--
"This is Bert--" a voice at Nancy's telephone would say, in the
middle of a sweet October morning, "Nance...Tom Ingram picked me
up, and brought me in...and he was saying that Mrs.
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