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The sun was half-way down the sky; she had been in the cave almost six hours, and she knew it must be late in the afternoon. Neither Mrs. Waurigan nor the party of children was visible as she passed the house. They had probably gone in for tea, and she did not stop to look them up, for a great longing for home had seized upon her.
Good-by! do come again to-morrow, and bring Dolly, won't you?" and she gave Genevieve one kiss and Eyebright another. "You're pretty big to play with dolls, I think. But then" meditatively "she's a pretty big doll too." Mrs. Waurigan was knitting a blue-yarn stocking. She could tell Eyebright nothing about the Oven. "I know it's not a great way off," she said. "But I've never been there.
"You'd better come in and get a bite of something to eat as you come back," said Mrs. Waurigan. "That's the house just across that pasture. 'T ain't but a step out of your way." "Oh, thank you. How kind you are!" replied Eyebright. Then she said good-by and hurried on, thinking to herself, "Maine is full of good people, I do believe. I wish Wealthy could come up here and see how nice they are."
And now Eyebright remembered that she was on her road to the cave, a fact quite forgotten for the moment, and she jumped up and said she must go. "Perhaps Mrs. Waurigan will know where the Oven is," she added. "I guess so," replied Lotty; "because she does know about a great many, many things.
"Is that your mother sitting there?" asked Eyebright catching a glimpse of a woman and a baby under a tree not far off. "Oh, dear, no! That's Mrs. Waurigan. She's Jenny's mother, you know, and 'Mandy's and Peter Paul Rubens's. She's not our mother at all. My mother's name is Mrs. Brown, and my papa is Dr. Azariah P. Brown. We live in New York city. Did you ever see New York city?" "No, never.
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