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`` I 'm going to do everything I can , while I 'm at Happy House , to make up to them , '' she finished . Peter assured her that he wanted to help . How much the desire was inspired by sympathy for Nonie and Davy or by the winning picture Nancy made , her rebel strands of red-brown hair blowing across her flushed cheeks , no one could say . And when at the gate of Happy House they separated , Peter promising to be on hand at the Cove at four o'clock , Nancy watched him swing down the road with a pleasant sense of comradeship . `` Oh , shades of Odysseus , '' muttered Nancy . From the swing on the hollyhock porch she had spied Mrs. Eaton coming up the flagged path to the front door . As she sat idly swinging , Nancy had been trying over the deeply emotional lines that Berthé , the much-suffering heroine of her dear play , should say when the villain proved to be her lover in disguise .