Pink ice cream and cakes
with pink icing--"
"And pink strawberries--"
"Not green ones! No, sir!"
"And watermelons if we can get some that won't make too much trouble
for Dr. Hancock."
"How are we going to serve them? We can't bring china way out
here--and we won't have any for Rose House until after we give this
party to earn it!"
"They have paper plates with pretty patterns on them now. And if they
cost too much we might get the plain ones and lay a d'oyley of pink
paper on each one," suggested Margaret.
"Probably that will be the cheapest and the effect will be just as
good, but I'll find out the prices in town," promised Delia.
"I have a scheme for a table of fancy things," offered Dorothy. "Let's
have it under that tree over there and over it let's hang a huge rose.
I think I know how to make it--two hoops, the kind Dicky rolls, one
above the other, the smaller one on top, and both suspended from the
tree. Cover them inside and out with big pink paper petals."
"How are you going to make it look like a rose and not a pink bell?"
inquired Delia.
"Put a green calyx on the top and some yellow stamens inside and then
make a stem that will look like the real thing, only gigantic.
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