Monday evening Mother and Daddy Morrison went through the hedge
into Dr. Yarrow's house to visit the doctor and his wife. Brother
and Sister were told to run in and visit Grandmother Hastings
until eight o'clock, their bedtime.
"Can we take Brownie?" begged Sister. "Grandmother says he is the
nicest dog!"
So Brownie, who was now three times the size he had been when
Ralph brought him home in the basket, was allowed to go calling,
too.
"Grandma," said Sister, when Grandmother Hastings had answered
their knock on her screen door, and had hugged and kissed them
both. "Grandma, couldn't we go to the movies?"
Now Grandmother Hastings was a darling grandmother who loved to do
whatever her grandchildren asked of her. It never entered her dear
head that Mother Morrison might not wish Brother and Sister to go
to the movies at night. She only thought how they would enjoy the
pictures, and although she disliked going out at night herself,
she said that she would take Brother and Sister.
"We can't go downtown to the Majestic," she said, "for that is too
far for me to walk. We'll have to go over to the nice little
theatre on Dollmer Avenue. If we go right away, we can be home
early.
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