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Instead, frightened by the strangeness of the scene and the noise and laughter of the people all about, Fleurette set up a wail of woe which developed rapidly into a storm of screams and sobs, indeed, it was a first-class crying spell, a thing which the good-natured child rarely indulged in.
Apparently Fleurette understood, for she smiled and gurgled, and seemed to look upon Elise as an old friend. Mona admired the baby but was more interested in the house. "Show me everything," she begged Patty. "I want to see it all. Where's your linen closet?" "My linen closet is a room," and Patty led them thither.
They never could get but one of Fleurette crying, she's such a good-natured kiddy. All right, Chick, start it off." They listened to the pretty little chanson, and repeated it until Elise felt satisfied she had added it to her repertory. Just as she finished Betty Gale came flying in. "Skip into your togs, Elise, and come for a drive with us," she said.
And then when at last Azalea emerged from the tumbled-down ruin of the little old house, with a baby in her arms, Patty gave a cry of startled fear, and then clapped her hand over her mouth, lest her dismay be too evident to those sitting near by. "Mona!" she whispered, "it's Fleurette!" "No! I don't believe it! You can't tell, such a little baby they all look alike, you're imagining, Patty "
"Yes, we will do that some day. I'd like to round them up myself. Mother's tales of her childhood home, as retold me by my father, sounded delightful. They had old country estates, and " "And ancestral halls! Hung with old armour! Oh, Little Billee, what fun to take Fleurette there! Portraits of her ancestors smiling down at her from the oaken walls of the long picture gallery "
And so Farnsworth went in search of Patty with a resolve to try to reason out the matter with a fair consideration of all sides of it. He found his wife and daughter in the nursery. Patty had sent Winnie off, feeling that she must hold Fleurette in her arms for some time, in order to realise that she was safe from the whirling winds of that awful cyclone!
"Good for you, Zaly," cried Patty; "we'll have it, and you and I will run it, and Fleurette shall be the presiding genius, and sit enthroned among the fairy wares! Oh, it will be lovely!" "Yes, do have it," agreed Betty. "It will be a screaming success with Fleurette in it!"
"The what?" and Farnsworth strode across the room and took his wife and child both into his big bear-like embrace. "The dearest, sweetest man in the world!" Patty said, laughing but nearly smothered in his arms. "All right, you're excused," and he let them go. Nurse Winnie came then and took Fleurette, and the two elder Farnsworths went downstairs together.
"They're having a gorgeous trip, aren't they?" "Yes, indeed, but I wish they'd ever get home! Just think, Father has never seen Fleurette!" "She'll be a big girl when they do see her. She's growing like a little weed." "Like a little flower, you mean! Don't you just love her name, Elise?" "Fleurette? Little Flower? Of course I do. The sweetest ever. Does Bill still call you Patty Blossom?"
I am putting Philip and Chick over in the west wing, far removed from the nursery, for I don't want them imagining they are kept awake by the night thoughts of my child. And, I must confess, Fleurette has a way of tuning up in the wee, small hours! However, we had the nursery walls muffled, so I don't think you'll be disturbed. Isn't this outlook fine, Elise?"
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