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I had a splendid truck given me at Cape Town through the kind co-operation of Sir Alfred Milner a large double-covered one, capable of holding twelve tons. In other places she refers to the help given to her by various officials. The commandant at Aliwal North had ordered £150 worth of clothing, and had distributed it; she undertook to forward some of it.
"He didn't want to, I suppose," said Polly, grimly. Dotty fell into a brown study. It was certainly very unkind in some man that he hadn't married Miss Polly and taken care of her, so she need not have wandered around the world with a double-covered basket and a snuff-box. It was a great pity; still Dotty could not see that just now it had anything to do with Polly's forgetting to set the table.
"Good by, all," said Polly, going off with her double-covered basket on her arm; "remember me to Margaret when you write." "What a funny thing to say!" remarked Prudy; "how can we remember people to anybody, or forget them to anybody either?" "O, it was awful," said Dotty, linking arms with Prudy and walking her off to the seat in the trees.
Grace brought her piqué apron down stairs to make, Susy her tatting, Prudy a handkerchief, Dotty a square of patchwork, while Flyaway danced about for a needle and thread. "What a happy group!" said Mrs. Clifford, looking up from her sewing. She had forgotten Polly Whiting, who was mournfully toeing off a sock for Horace, while he sat on the floor, at her feet, mending her double-covered basket.
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