"Where do you want to go?" asked Billy of Bert.
"Oh, I don't know. 'Most anywhere, I guess."
"Could we go to see the Washington Monument?" asked Nan. "I've always
wanted to see that, ever since I saw the picture of it in one of daddy's
books at home."
"I don't believe we'd better go out there alone," said Nell. "It's quite
a way from here. We'd better have our mothers or our fathers with us.
But we can walk along the streets, and go in the big market, I guess."
"Let's do that!" agreed Billy. "There's heaps of good things to eat in
the market," he added to Bert. "It makes you hungry to go through it."
"Then I don't want to go!" laughed Bert. "I'm hungry now."
"I know where we can get some nice hot chocolate," said Nell. "It's in a
drug store, and mother lets Billy and me go there sometimes when we have
enough money from our allowance."
"Oh, I'm going to treat!" cried Bert. "I have fifty cents, and mother
said I could spend it any way I pleased. Come on and we'll have
chocolate. It's my treat!"
"We may go, Mayn't we, Jane?" asked Nell, of the maid who had
accompanied them.
"Oh, yes," was the smiling answer.
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