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Hay had not been the first instance to occur to her! 'Children get ill and die too sometimes, Alie went on, 'and big people very often get better. There was Captain Leonard next door to us at home 'And I know the boy-that-brought-the-potatoes' papa, cried Biddy. 'I am so glad I thought of him.
Just then out came Mrs. Vane and Alie. They both looked pleased and bright, and this made Biddy still crosser. 'Well, now, said her mother consideringly, 'is that all, Alie? Yes I think it is. I must call at the grocer's on the way home, but I think we pass that way. No I don't remember anything else. At this Bridget could no longer keep silent.
'Perhaps it wouldn't be exactly that, said Celestina, a little afraid of the responsibility of putting anything into Bridget's head, 'but I'm sure you could do something. And why shouldn't you see him? Miss Alie was in his room just now. Bridget would have hung her head if she had not been lying down. As it was, she looked ashamed. 'He mustn't get up at all, you know, she said.
Alie came and stood beside her, gently putting her arm round her mother and looking daggers at Bride. Mamma was nervous and over-tired, she knew; she had had so much to go through lately. How could Biddy be so naughty and unfeeling? And yet, as the words passed through her mind, Rosalys hesitated. Biddy was not really unfeeling it was not the word for her.
And some very magnificent dolls gazed down with their bright unblinking eyes at the whole from a high position, where they and the larger, more costly toys were placed. It was all very imposing, very breath-taking-away, and Biddy's eyes were very eager and her mouth wide open as she trotted after Alie.
Seeing her coming, Rosalys called to her. 'Celestina, I want to ask you something, and in a moment the two were talking together busily. 'It's only the secret, Biddy, said Alie laughingly; she did not know of Biddy's new ill-humour. 'You mustn't mind. Down came the black curtain thicker and thicker over Bridget's rosy face; firmly she settled herself on her unmanageable steed.
Bridget murmured something; she meant to be very good. But when she got a little behind her mother and Alie again she gave herself a shake. 'I shouldn't like that at all, she thought. 'I should hate this frock if it was always to remind me.
It might be a good thing if she had some companions nearer her own age, but even that has its difficulties. Just think of the scrapes she got into that time I sent her to your aunt's for a fortnight! Why, she was sent home in disgrace for what was it for I forget? Biddy's scrapes are so many. 'For taking the two smallest children to bathe in the pond before breakfast, wasn't it? said Alie.
Can something have happened to him that Biddy has heard of, and that has made her run off to him poor Biddy, she is very fond of papa. But if she has run away out of mischief, Alie oh, could she be such a naughty, naughty girl? Mrs. Vane was dreadfully excited. Alie had hard work to keep back her own tears. 'Just as we were so happy about the doll-house for her too, Mrs. Vane went on.
I shan't like Seacove if they're going always to run races. In London they couldn't in the streets; it was only when we went in the gardens, and that wasn't every day, it was too far to go. I wish I had a brother or a sister littler than me; it's too much difference between Alie and me, thirteen and eight. I wish But here came a whoop from behind. 'Off, Biddy; look sharp one, two, three.
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