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"That was very ungrateful, and selfish, and cruel of them, Reuben! They should have taken you with them! At least little Kitty and her husband should have done so," said Hannah, with more feeling than she had yet betrayed. "Law, Hannah, why little Kitty and her husband couldn't!
"Perfectly lovely," said Marie, "but" with a slight shiver of her expressive shoulders "a little cold and outdoorish, eh?" "Nonsense," returned Kitty dictatorially, "and if he IS cold, he can easily light those logs. They always build their open fires under a tree. Why, even Mr. Gunn used to do that when he was camping out in the Adirondacks last summer.
Your voice never used to be so sweet. 'It keeps the children good. But you should have seen Kitty chaunting 'Edwin and Angelina' to the twins this morning, and getting up an imitation of crying at 'turn Angelina, ever dear, because, she said, Charlotte always did. 'That is worth writing to tell Fitzjocelyn!
After an hour's drive, the carriage turned in at some white gates, and stopped in a paved courtyard surrounded by high walls. Kitty gazed round her, thinking that she had seen the place before, but she was not allowed to linger. Hugo hurried her through a door into a stone hall, and down some dark passages, cautioning her from time to time to make no noise. Once Kitty tried to draw back.
"The carriage is too early," she said; "let us come into the sitting room for five minutes. I have said my good-byes and kissed you all a dozen times, but I shall never be done until I am out of your sight." "O mother, mother, how can we let you go!" wailed Kathleen. "Kitty! how can you!" exclaimed Nancy. "What does it matter about us when mother has the long journey and father is so ill?"
I'll not be troubling my poor Phoebe, she said, and her hands trembled a little. Kitty came in at this moment and said her aunt Phoebe wanted her, so we were obliged to break off the conversation. I thought about it all rather sadly as I sat by my solitary fire that evening with Tinker's head on my lap.
"No, I did not." "I suppose it won't do, after all," said Kitty, dejectedly. "And it's a real beauty; it cost half a crown." "Really! That's a big price. I should think it might do for any one. After all, an ark might come in handy soon, if we are going to have a flood. Who's the happy boy?" "Oh, you are shouting!" cried Kitty, warningly. "And it's a secret."
"And signed his name Peter Pan," recalled Louise. "Why should Kitty be watching a child with such a swell name?" queried Julia. "Why all the other things?" replied Elizabeth. "There's Neal's toot. We must go," announced Isabel. "I wish we could circle around the island," suggested Cleo. "No harm in that, surely. Every one goes as they please on the bay." "Grand idea!" exclaimed Helen.
"You'll have to play more with Kitty." "Oh, of course I love Kit, to play with at home, and to be my sister. But Glad is my chum, my intimate friend, and we always sit together in school, and everything like that. Kitty's in another room, and besides, she has Dorothy Adams for her friend. You know the difference between friends and sisters, don't you, Mother?" "Of course I do, Midget, dear.
The next day, when Kitty arrived at Thurston House, she was informed of Ned Talbot's visit, and promptly remarked that it was a "mean shame" the shame consisting in the fact of the visit having been so timed that she herself had been deprived of the pleasure of seeing one who was honoured by her special approval.
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