left her with the new-comers while he went off to find other men
and women to introduce. The Bradleys met the Roses, and the Seward
Smiths and gray-haired Mrs. Underhill, with her son, and his
motherless boys--the hour was confused, but heart-warming. When
the Bradleys went home in the Roses' car, they felt that they had
been honestly welcomed to Marlborough Gardens. Nancy was so
excited that she did not want any supper; she sat with Anne in her
lap chattering about the social possibilities opening before her.

"Rose tells me that the club dues are fifty a year," Bert said,
"and some of the bathhouses are five, and the others twenty each.
The twenties are dandies--twelve feet square, with gratings, and
wooden hooks, and lots of space. However, we don't have to decide
that until next year. Of course you sign for teas and all that but
the cards and card-tables and so on, are supplied by the club, and
the tennis courts and lockers and so on, are absolutely free."

"Isn't that wonderful?" Nancy said.

"Well, Rose said they weren't trying to make anything out of it--
it's a family club, and it's here for the general convenience of
the Gardens. Now, for instance, if a fellow from outside joins, he
pays one hundred and fifty initiation fee, and seventy-five a
year."

"H'm!" said Nancy, in satisfaction. The Marlborough Gardens Yacht
Club was not for the masses. "All we need for the children is a
five-dollar bath house," she added presently, "For we're so near
that it's really easier for you and me to walk over in our bathing
suits."