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Here, by herself, waiting for Bobby, in the Hess House at Millton, she was curiously adult. Would she be adult if she were let alone? "You don't know what it's like," Di cried, "to be hushed up and laughed at and paid no attention to, everything you say." "Don't I?" said Lulu. "Don't I?" She was breathing quickly and looking at Di. If this was why Di was leaving home....
So they went, and asked their mother, but she said she did not know of any company coming, but, for fear some one might come along unexpectedly she did put the clean table cloth on, and she got out the napkins, and opened a jar of preserved sweet flag root. "Come on," proposed Lulu, after a bit, "let's go through the woods. Bully, you show us where you met the queer lady, and maybe we'll see her."
"I'll carry you up-stairs, little missy," said Tom, the servant man, who opened the door for them, picking her up as he spoke. "Bring her in here, Tom," Violet said, speaking from the door of her dressing-room. "And will you come in too, Lulu dear?" Violet was very careful never to give Lulu an order; her wishes when addressing her were always expressed in the form of a request.
"Papa, which is my desk?" "They are exactly alike," he said. "I thought of having yours made a trifle lower than the others, but concluded to give you a foot-rest instead, as you will soon grow tall enough to want it the height it now is. Max and Lulu, shall we give your little sister the first choice, as she is the youngest?"
But the first day, Lulu, on coming home from school, went to Violet with a strong protest against being taught by him.
So Lulu did all the work. As for Di and Bobby, they had taken the pail and gone for water, discouraging Monona from accompanying them, discouraging her to the point of tears. But the two were gone for so long that on their return Dwight was hungry and cross and majestic. "Those who disregard the comfort of other people," he enunciated, "can not expect consideration for themselves in the future."
They had a grandfather and a grandmother, and also an aunt, Miss Lulu Baker, who lived in a big city. Bunny and Sue Brown had many friends in Bellemere. Besides the few boys and girls I have mentioned there were many others. And there was also Jed Winkler, an old sailor who owned a monkey, and, lately, he had bought a green parrot from an old shipmate of his.
"Bertha, your hair is very nicely curled to-night," said Mrs. Frisbie. "I don't know how Dinah found time to do it." "Dinah didn't do it, Mamma. May did it. She did Lulu's too, and Lulu did hers. We're always going to dress each other now." Just then May came in with a plate of hot toast in her hand. Lulu followed with the teapot.
The letter thus scornfully treated runs over with a young girl's written loquacity: "Oh, Lulu, there is such a sensation as you never saw or heard of 'in all your born days, as mamma used to say. He has been at the village for some time, but lately we have had oh, the weirdest stories about him!
Harold was quite a hero with these last and with Max and Lulu; in fact, with all who knew or heard of his brave deed, though he modestly disclaimed any right to the praises heaped upon him, asserting that he had done no more than any one with common courage and humanity would have done in his place.
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