Patience, with cheerful impartiality, did
both, in season and out of season.
It certainly looked as though it were getting to be a habit to be happy
among a good many persons in Winton that summer. The spirit of the new
club seemed in the very atmosphere.
A rivalry, keen but generous, sprang up between the club members in the
matter of discovering new ways of "Seeing Winton," or, failing that, of
giving a new touch to the old familiar ones.
There were many informal and unexpected outings, besides the club's
regular ones, sometimes amongst all the members, often among two or
three of them.
Frequently, Shirley drove over in the surrey, and she and Pauline and
Hilary, with sometimes one of the other girls, would go for long
rambling drives along the quiet country roads, or out beside the lake.
Shirley generally brought her sketch-book and there were pleasant
stoppings here and there.
And there were few days on which Bedelia and the trap were not out,
Bedelia enjoying the brisk trots about the country quite as much as her
companions.
Hilary soon earned the title of "the kodak fiend," Josie declaring she
took pictures in her sleep, and that "Have me; have my camera," was
Hilary's present motto.
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