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But there was no opportunity to do this next day, because the Phoenix, as usual, had gone to sleep in some out-of-the-way spot, after asking, as a special favour, not to be disturbed for twenty-four hours. The Lamb never whooping-coughed once all that Sunday, and mother and father said what good medicine it was that the doctor had given him.
So now the children went on through the wood more quickly and comfortably, the girls picking flowers and the Lamb inviting the 'pretty dickies' to observe that he himself was a 'little white real-water-wet duck! And all this time he hadn't whooping-coughed once.
The Duchess thought of her feeble boy-babies who had been whooping-coughed or scarlet-fevered out of the world, and sighed, and loved her nephew better than ever his mother had loved him since his babyhood.
The two decades forming the interim between those years constitute my Dark Age, in which I teethed and measled and whooping-coughed, and went to school, and wore my hair in two long pig-tails, and loved molasses candy, and regarded a school-room as purgatory, a ball-room as heaven when I sang and danced and grew as the birds and grasshoppers and flowers sing and dance and grow, because they having nothing else to do.
'There won't be any dinner, with no cook and no pudding-basin, Anthea reminded him; 'but there's always bread-and-butter. 'Let's get home, said Cyril. The Lamb was furiously unwishful to be dressed in his warm clothes again, but Anthea and Jane managed it, by force disguised as coaxing, and he never once whooping-coughed.
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