I want to see if you think me a likely person for a summer chum . '' Ada Cameron did more than smile . She laughed outright and went over to the fence where Pauline was sitting on a stump . She looked down into the merry black eyes of the town girl she had been half envying for a week and said humorously : `` Yes , I think you very likely , indeed . But it takes two to make a friendship -- like a bargain . If I 'm one , you 'll have to be the other . '' `` I 'm the other . Shake , '' said Pauline , holding out her hand . That was the beginning of a friendship that made poor Mrs. Wallace groan outwardly as well as inwardly . Pauline and Ada found that they liked each other even more than they had expected to . They walked , rowed , berried and picnicked together . Ada did not go to Mrs. Boyd 's a great deal , for some instinct told her that Mrs. Wallace did not look favourably on her , but Pauline spent half her time at the little , brown , orchard-embowered house at the end of the beech lane where the Embrees lived . She had never met any girl she thought so nice as Ada . `` She is nice every way , '' she told the unconvinced Aunt Olivia . `` She 's clever and well read . She is sensible and frank . She has a sense of humour and a great deal of insight into character -- witness her liking for your niece ! She can talk interestingly and she can also be silent when silence is becoming . And she has the finest profile I ever saw . Aunt Olivia , may I ask her to visit me next winter ? ''
`` No , indeed , '' XXXXX Mrs. Wallace , with crushing emphasis .
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