but they were too large for them now, growing out of them as they grew out of their clothes.
"Oh, it was glorious!" cried Nan. "Sailing in an ice-boat must be like the way it feels to be in an airship."
"I'm going up in an airship when I get big!" cried Freddie, making a dive after Snoop, the cat, who was hiding under the table.
"Have you heard yet whether you are to go?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey, of her husband, when the noisy greetings to the children were over.
"No, not yet," he answered, and he made a motion with his head, as if to tell his wife not to speak of a certain matter before the children.
"Oh, I saw you wink !" cried Nan, clapping her hands. "What does it mean? Is it a secret, Momsey?"
"Well, yes. Nan. You shall be told in plenty of time, if anything comes of it."
"Oh, that's two secrets!" cried Nan. "Bert has one and now there's one here."
"What is Bert's secret?" asked Nan's mother.
