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Frances returned from school, ravenously hungry and quite rosy with the rain that had beaten in her face. "Mother, I am nearly starved!" she announced. "Why, it is time for luncheon," said Mrs. Thayne, awakening to a realization of that fact. "But where is Roger? He can't have taken the whole morning just to deliver that message for Estelle." "He could easily, Mother," said Win.
"Ah, but that is kingdom come," said Dakie Thayne. It seemed as if the question of "things next" was to arise continually, in fresh shapes, just now, when things next for the Holabirds were nearer next than ever before. "We must have Delia Waite again soon, if we can get her," said mother, one morning, when we were all quietly sitting in her room, and she was cutting out some shirts for Stephen.
There was the open piano, and Ruth played a little; there was the stereoscope, and some of the girls looked over the new views of Catskill and the Hudson that Dakie Thayne had given us; there was the table with cards, and we played one game of Old Maid, in which the Old Maid got lost mysteriously into the drawer, and everybody was married; and then Miss Pennington appeared at the door, with her man-servant behind her, and there was an end.
The mail was in early, and Captain Green came up from the post-office as the Minster party was alighting from the wagons. He gave Dakie Thayne the bag. It was Dakie's delight to distribute, calling out the fortunate names as the expectant group pressed around him, like people waiting the issue of a lottery venture. "Mrs. Linceford, Miss Goldthwaite, Mrs. Linceford, Mrs. Linceford! Master hm!
Thayne returned from her fruitless expedition to the beach, looking still more distressed. "I can't imagine where Roger is," she said anxiously to Frances. "Of course, there may be some good excuse for this performance, but I don't see what it can be. He knows that he is not to go into town without permission and it seems as though he would have come home for luncheon unless he was in St.
Dakie Thayne had accompanied with the reading of the ballad, slightly transposed and adapted. As Leslie led Sir Charles before the curtain, in response to the continued demand, he added the concluding stanza, "The dame made a courtesy, The dog made a bow; The dame said, 'Your servant, The dog said, 'Bow-wow."
Linceford, counting up from thumb to little finger. "Dakie Thayne and Miss Craydocke, Marmaduke Wharne and these two, they just make it out," she continued, counting back again. "Whatever you do, Les, don't make up to Fox Lox at last, for all our sakes!" Out came Dakie Thayne, at this point, upon them, with his hands full. "Miss Leslie, could you head these needles for me with black wax?
"I think we are going down into the cave," said Win happily. "Mr. Max told me just now that we were to begin exploring there and that things would be arranged so that it would not be hard for me. I suppose he and Pierre have some plan." "But you aren't going into the cave on a day like this?" exclaimed Mrs. Thayne, quite horrified at this announcement. "Why, yes, Mother," said Win.
Hobart said she hoped she would come often, and let the girls run in and be sociable! And Grace Hobart says 'she hasn't got tired of croquet, she likes it real well! They're that sort of people, Mr. Thayne." "Oh! that's very bad," said Dakie Thayne, with grave conclusiveness. "The Haddens had them one night, when we were going to play commerce.
Frances smiled. "Oh, I won't be a pig, Mother," she said at last. "Miss Connie is a dear and of course we must make the boys have a nice time." "The climate agrees so well with Win that I am very thankful to spend Christmas here," replied Mrs. Thayne. "To-morrow, Nurse is going into town to the French market and I think you will like to go with her."
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