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"I'm sure it's beautiful. I was quite looking forward to tasting it; quite! I know what your gooseberry-jam is." "Would you like to try it now?" Maggie suggested. "But we've warned you." "Oh, I don't want to trouble you now. We're all so cosy here. Any time " "No trouble, auntie," said Clara, with her most captivating and innocent smile.
I have cried with loud publicity in full school-room conclave; I have cried with silent privacy in bed. I have cried over the jackdaw. I have cried over the bear. I have not cried over Vick, as I am to take her with me. To-day we have all cried boys and all; and have moistened the bun-loaf and the gooseberry-jam at tea with our tears.
Then she talked of jams, and mentioned gooseberry-jam, whereupon Clara privately put her tongue out, with the quickness of a snake, to signal to Maggie. "Ours isn't good this year," said Maggie. "I told auntie we weren't so set up with it, a fortnight ago," said Clara simply, like a little angel. "Did you, dear?" Mrs Hamps exclaimed, with great surprise, almost with shocked surprise.
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