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"This idn't our house," he said, "it tannot be. Look, Audrey; look, Tom, this house has a' air-garden too." He pointed above our heads, and looking up, Tom and I saw what in our hurried crossing the street we had not noticed there was a conservatory on the first floor just like the one opposite! "Come back, come back," I said. "This isn't our house.
And I think one of the things that helped to please him quite was the discovery of a beautiful air-garden, which Uncle Geoff had had built out of one of the drawing-room windows for Miss Goldy-hair's pet plants. Papa and mother have come home since then, for, as I told you, all these things happened a very long time ago five whole years ago.
And we lost the way, and we thought this was our house because it was opposite one with an air-garden and we didn't see it couldn't be ours because it had an air-garden too." I stopped for a minute out of breath. "It was me that sawed the air-garden wurst," said Racey. He spoke with great self-satisfaction.
But just then there was no one in sight, and I was thinking whether it would not be best to try to find our way back to the friendly chemist and ask him to help us, when Tom called out suddenly: "Audrey, we've got on the wrong side of the street. Look, the next house is the one with what Racey calls an air-garden." I looked and saw the little glass conservatory he pointed out.
"Tom," said Racey, pressing his face flat against the window, so as to see out better, "Tom, have you seen the air-garden?" "The air-garden," repeated Tom, "what do you mean?" "He means that little sticking out glass place," I explained, "with flowers and plants in there, further down on the other side."
The next day Tom was better, and two or three days after that we went at last to dinner and tea at Miss Goldy-hair's. If I were to tell you all we did, and what pretty things she showed us, and how delighted Racey was with the inside of her air-garden, it would take a whole other book.
"Our house is almost opposite the one with the air-garden," he said, "just a little bit further along. Yes, this one must be it." He hurried us up the steps and when we got to the front door gave it a little push. It yielded it was open. "You see," said Tom triumphantly, "you see I was right, Audrey." But almost before he had said the words, Racey pulled us back.
We live very near Uncle Geoff's, for papa got to be something more clever still when he came back from China, and had to give up living in the country. We were rather sorry for that, but still perhaps we enjoy it all the more when we go there in the summer. And I have an air-garden of my own, which would be very nice if the boys wouldn't try experiments on the plants in the holidays.
"A preservatory," said Tom, rather contemptuously, "why, who would think what you meant, if you say a' air-garden?" "I zink it's a much prettier name than 'servatory," said Racey indignantly.
"I never said it was all you," said Tom, "but I thought you'd be so pleased about Miss Goldy-hair; and now you're quite vexed with me." We were on the fair way to a quarrel, when a distraction came from the direction of Racey. "Her's got a' air-garden," he called out suddenly in his little shrill voice. "Did you know her had a' air-garden? I've been d'eaming about it. Her's going to show it me.
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