CHAPTER IX
JANE AND HER LOG
JANE received the answer to her letter in due time, written all over a number of post-cards depicting the Canal.
"And where will the next be from?" she wondered, spreading the post-cards in a semi-circle around her plate at the breakfast table, to her aunts' gentle annoyance.
But they were being very lenient with Jane just now, and "bothering" about her even less than usual. For they did realize, dimly, how wholly her heart was with the boys on shipboard and how her spirit was far away, flying before them to China. They let her drift and dream, but Mr. Bolliver, who came to Resthaven quite often now, did not seem to approve of too much dreaming. He made Jane take him for long tramps down the Point—he was a brisk and untiring walker—and he also made
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