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Avory; "and I'm sure they are very unlikely to get any such experience here. But I shall be very nervous." "No, you won't," said Mr. Lenox, "because we'll arrange that you shall have news. I have thought of that. A telegram every morning at breakfast and a telegram every evening after tea. That will be perfectly simple. And letters, of course."
Avory allowed them to row about for an hour before lunch. This they did, Robert and Mary and Horace and Hester in the Hermione, and Janet and Gregory and Jack in the Rosalind. After lunch, while they were waiting about in the hall looking at the pictures, and not quite sure what to do, Mr. Imber of Philadelphia approached them. "I wonder," he said, "if you would do me a favour.
'Miss Abingdon looked conscientiously tearful, and Mrs. Avory applied herself to her pocket-handkerchief as soon as the canon began his usual joyful Christmas message about empty chairs and absent friends. 'Poor Mrs. Avory! said Jane, 'weeping has become a sort of habit with her, and tears come very easily.
"But it was sent to us," she said at last. "No," said Mr. Amory; "I beg your pardon, young lady, but it was sent to us. It came to you in error." Janet looked questioningly at her mother, and Mrs. Avory nodded yes. Hester and Gregory now entered the room to insist on their mother either coming out or giving leave for some of the street children to be allowed to go inside the caravan. But Mr.
Avory waiting for them, and stay with her at the Shakespeare Hotel for a day or so. By that time they would know exactly how much or how little they liked the caravan, and what things were necessary; and then Mrs. Avory would go back and they would begin their real adventures. Could anything be better?
The Avories did not go to boarding school, or, indeed, to any school in the ordinary way at all; Mrs. Avory said she could not spare them. Instead they were visited every day except Saturdays by Mr. Crawley and Miss Bingham, who taught them the things that one is supposed to know Mr. Crawley taking the boys in the old billiard room, and Miss Bingham the girls in the morning room.
On those evenings on which he came to "The Gables" Mr. Lenox always looked in on her for a little gossip; and this was called his "runcible spoon" the joke being that Mr. Lenox and Runcie were engaged to be married. And now you know the Avory family root and branch.
Dorothy Avory looked over-heated when the dance was finished, and as she had furnished the excuse for a rather poor attempt at romping, her obvious fatigue was quite sufficient to give the canon an opportunity of a little quiet reading until all were rested.
Avory home, where the housekeeper's greeting convinced him, if he had required convincing, that Mrs. Avory was staying at Hulworth. He said good-night when he had done everything that was useful and neighbourly, and had sent his chauffeur in his own car for the doctor, and had been helpful in getting remedies and suggesting cures.
Avory, and picture postcards for Runcie and Collins. The budget for X. they kept, as they had not brought his address with them. They resumed their journey the next morning, a little depressed in spirits, for the end was so near. It was now Monday, and they had to be home again that is to say, in their home without wheels to-morrow night, and the thought was not exhilarating.
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