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"Make them do it. I never will forget the day she marched Beth's boys through the streets and locked them up in her house." Mrs. Tate pointed her needle, which had been unthreaded all the morning, at Mrs. Moon. "Funniest thing I ever saw. Remember it, Beth?" "Remember? I should think I did." Mrs. Moon smiled quietly. "I have long seen the funny side, but it took me long to see it.
"It's all real and right then. We " But here the colloquy was interrupted by the arrival of Mrs. Caldwell in a state of distraction with the hairdresser's bill in her hand. Aunt Grace Mary made her sit down, and patted her shoulder soothingly. Uncle James was out. Beth, greatly relieved, looked on with interest. She knew that the worst was over.
"But then, darlings," she said, after a little, "you might think I would love her better than you, and you are such dears, you don't deserve that." So Beth kissed them all with fervor, her mind quite made up. While they were away, Aunty Stevens said, "Isn't that a pretty hard test?" The children's mother shook her head thoughtfully at the dancing fire. "I hope not," she said.
"Now, that child is really amusing," he said "really amusing." No one else thought this last enormity a happy specimen of her wit, and they looked at Uncle James, who continued to laugh, in amazement. "Beth," he said, "when luncheon is over I shall give you a picture-book." Beth accordingly had to stay behind with him after the others had left the dining-room.
It seemed an age before she could get the candle lit with her trembling hands, and, in the interval, the horrible cry recurred, and this time she thought it came from the surgery. Could any sick person have been left there locked up? Dan always kept the room locked up, and Beth had hardly ever been in it.
When the woman returned, she handed the child back to her carefully, but without a smile, took the glass, and went down to the spring by a narrow winding path which took them out of sight of the cottage directly. Here it was old trees again, and green banks, with the Beck below. When they were under the trees Beth looked up at a big elm, and her companion noticed her lips move.
Tato blushed as if embarrassed, but in a moment smiled upon the American girls. "Do you think me immodest, then?" she asked, anxiously. "By no means, my dear," Beth assured her. "I suppose you have an excellent reason for wearing boys' clothes." "So I have, signorina. I live in the mountains, where dresses catch in the crags, and bother a girl.
"Uh huh, let's," said Beth. They met Beth's mother on the way to church. "We'll stay at home to-day, mother," said Beth, "we've had just all we can stand." So they went home and played church in the front yard, until Ethelwyn and Nan came home just before the sermon.
Beth, Patsy and Myrtle retired early, as did Uncle John. The Major, smoking his "bedtime cigar," as he called it, strolled out into the yard and saw Wampus seated in the automobile, also smoking. "We get an early start to-morrow, Wampus," said the Major. "Better get to bed." "Here is my bed," returned the chauffeur, quietly. "But there's a room reserved for you in the hotel." "I know.
Then one day there came a little resolute tap at the door, and Beth walked in without waiting to be asked, and seeing in a moment with that further faculty of hers into the old lady's heart that it was sad, she went to her impulsively, and laid her unkempt brown head against her arm in an awkward caress, which touched the old lady to tears.
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