wn from an inspection
of Dolly's room, and these inspections were of almost daily occurrence
and usually participated in by several members of both families.

"Good idea!" said Mrs. Rose. "It will let Dotty get acquainted with the
young people here, and that's what I want. But let me make the party,
Mrs. Fayre, and you and Dolly invite the guests as we know so few people
as yet."

"No; the party must be half and half as to responsibility and expense.
If our two D's are to be so friendly, we must share and share alike in
their doings."

So it was agreed, and as there was but a week in which to get ready,
plans were hurried through.

They decided to ask thirty of the Berwick young people, fifteen girls
and fifteen boys.

"I wish Bob could be home!" sighed Dotty; and Dolly echoed the wish for
her own brother. But the boys of the two families were deep in school
exams and could not think of coming home for a party.

Of course the Fayres decided on the invitation list, but everything else
was mutually arranged.

It was to be entirely a lawn party; first because that seemed
pleasanter, and too, because then, it could take place on the adjoining
lawns and so be the party of both.

"Only,--if it rains!" said Dolly, with an anxious face.

"It won't rain!" declared Dotty; "it _can't_ rain on our double
birthday! It will be the beautifullest, clearest, sunshiniest day in the
world! I know it will!"

The girls decided to sleep in their new rooms for the first time the
night before the party.

"For," said Dolly, shaking her head sagely, "the night after the party,
we'll be so tired and thinky about it, that we can't enjoy our rooms so
much."

"All right," agreed Dotty, "I don't care. I'm crazy to get into mine;
the sooner the better, I say."

The two girls had a birthday present for each other, and though they
didn't know it, the two mothers had planned these so they should be
alike.

But they did know that the mothers had these gifts in readiness, and
that they would see them when they awoke on the birthday morning.

By common consent the real birthdays were ignored, and the fifteenth of
June accepted as the right anniversary for both.

Very formal were the rites preparatory to the occupancy of the new
rooms.

Dotty had planned them and after some discussion Dolly had agreed.

"You come over and wish me good-night in my room," Dotty said, "and then
I'll go over and wish you good-night in yours. And then, I'