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"Now," said Nan, "we must lay our plans. We're going to celebrate Patty's birthday, all day long; but there isn't very much time in a day, after all, so you must all choose what you think would be the most fun to do. We're going to the Country Club for luncheon, which is a motor trip of about twenty miles. Then we'll come back, and this evening there will be a little dinner dance, which is, of course, the real birthday party. Now you've about two hours before we start this morning. What do you want to do?"
"I'm for a dip in the ocean," declared Philip Van Reypen. "Does that hit anybody else?"