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to all this. Not keen on adventures! Well, a girl like that wouldn"t be, of course!
    „I"m not very keen on adventures either," said Anne. „We"ve had plenty, goodness knows.
    I prefer adventures when they"re al over!"
    George exploded. „Anne! How can you talk like that! We"ve had some smashing adventures, and we"ve enjoyed every one of them. If you feel like that we"ll leave you out of the next one."

    Anne laughed. „You won"t! An adventure comes up al of a sudden, like a wind blowing up in the sky, and we"re all in it, whether we like it or not. And you know that I like sharing things with you. I say - isn"t it time we got up?"
    „Yes," said George, looking at the clock on the mantelpiece. „Unless Berta wants to have her breakfast in bed? I bet she always does at home."
    „No, I don"t. I hate meals in bed," said Berta. „I"m going to get up."
    She leapt out of bed and went to the window. Immediately she saw the wide sweep of the bay, sparkling in the morning sun, as blue as cornflowers. The sea-sparkle was reflected into the bedroom, and made it very bright indeed.
    „Oh! I wondered why our room was so ful of bril iant light," said Berta. „Now I know! What a view! Oh, how lovely the sea looks this morning! And what"s that little island out there?
    What a lovely place it looks."
    „That"s Kirrin Island," said George, proudly. „It belongs to me."
    Berta laughed, thinking that George was joking. „Belongs to you! I bet you wish it did. It"s real y wunnerful!"
    „Wunnerful!" said George imitating her. „Can"t you say “wonderful”? It"s got a D in the middle, you know."
    „Yes. I"m always being told things like that," said Berta, stil staring out of the window. „I had an English governess and she tried to make me speak like you do. I do try, because I"ve got to go to an English school. My, my - I wish that island belonged to me. I wonder if my Pops could buy it."
    George exploded again. „Buy it! You donkey, I told you it was mine, didn"t I?"
    Berta turned round in surprise. „But - you didn"t mean it, did you?" she said. „Yours? But how could it be?"
    „It is George"s," said Anne. „It has always belonged to the Kirrin family. That"s Kirrin Island.
    George"s father gave it to her, after an adventure we once had."
    Berta stared at George in awe. „Great snakes! So it is yours! Aren"t you the lucky one! Wil you take me to visit it?"
    „I"l see," said George gruffly, glad to have impressed this American girl so much. Getting her „Pops" to buy the island indeed! George snorted to herself. What next!
    A shout came from the next room. It was Julian. „Hey, you girls! Are you getting up? We"re all too late for a bathe before breakfast this morning. Dick and I have only just woken up."
    „Berta"s here!" shouted back Anne. „We"ll get dressed, al of us, and then we"ll introduce Berta to you."
    „Are they your brothers?" asked Berta. „I haven"t got any. Or sisters either. I shal be pretty scared of them-"
    „You won"t be scared of Julian and Dick," said Anne, proudly. „You"l wish you had brothers like them. Won"t she, George?"
    „Yes," said George, shortly. She was feeling rather annoyed just then because Timmy was standing by Berta, wagging his plumy tail. „Come here, Timmy. Don"t make a nuisance of yourself."
    „Oh, he"s not," said Berta, and patted his big head. „I like him. He seems simply ENORMOUS after my Sally. But you"l love Sal y, George, you real y wil . Everyone says how sweet she is - and I"ve trained her beautiful y."
    George took no interest in these remarks at al . She flounced off to wash in the bath-room, but Julian and Dick were there, and there was a lot of yelling and shouting as George tried to make them hurry up and get out. Berta laughed.

    „That sounds nice and family-like," she said. „You don"t get that sort of thing if you"re an only child. What do I wear here?"
    „Oh - something very simple," said Anne, looking at the suitcase open on the floor, showing a