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A step further in, and the nostrils were greeted by the scent of green herbs just gathered, and the eye by the plump form of the cook, wholesome, white-aproned, and floury looking as edible as the food she manipulated her movements being supported and assisted by her satellites, the kitchen and scullery maids.
She wondered if they had any relatives outside the mill, for in that case there must be a painful difficulty in their family intercourse, a fat and floury spider, accustomed to take his fly well dusted with meal, must suffer a little at a cousin's table where the fly was au naturel, and the lady spiders must be mutually shocked at each other's appearance.
By the open door were some floury loaves, put out to cool. A hen was just coming to peck them. Then, in the doorway suddenly appeared a girl in a dirty apron. She was about fourteen years old, had a rosy dark face, a bunch of short black curls, very fine and free, and dark eyes; shy, questioning, a little resentful of the strangers, she disappeared.
Then a somewhat heated and floury damsel donned a neat divided riding skirt of dark-blue drill, with a white-linen coat, and the collar and tie which Norah regarded as the only reasonable neck gear, and joined her father in the office. "Ready? That's right," said he, casting an approving glance at the trim figure. "I've just finished writing, and the horses are in." "So's lunch," Norah responded.
Janey was asleep in the crib which Betty jogged now and then while she knit on a sock for the soldiers, Mary and the two little girls were always knitting socks for the soldiers these days in their spare moments and during the long winter evenings, Mary was kneading white loaves of bread with floury hands, and Bertrand sat close beside the window to catch the last rays of daylight by which to read the war news.
Yet even as she passionately denied the thought, Margot recognised in her heart that it was true, and darting quickly forward made her way into the inn parlour. The messenger still stood outside the door, waiting in stolid patience for instructions, and by his side was Mrs McNab, wiping floury hands in her apron, in evident perturbation of spirit.
Presently, from a private entrance, some children and some older persons appeared. The theater was for child actors only, and one of them a floury baker's boy, came to the iron gate, and acted as gate-keeper. To him I paid the few copper coins asked for admittance, and entered.
I found a rosy-faced landlady, clean and trim, though a trifle floury as to the arms and apron. She had emerged from a kitchen, an old-fashioned chamber with a floor of red brick; a chamber which was all in a rosy glow with the firelight, and looked like a Dutch picture, as I peeped at it through the open doorway.
W'en it's thoroughly wet on the houtside, turn it hinside hout, an' there you are, to all appearance as dry as bone. What! you won't have it at no price? Well, now, I'll tempt you. I'll make it two bob." "Say one," cried a baker, who had been listening to this, with a broad grin on his floury countenance.
Passing, on their goal-less way, a flour-mill, the door of which was half-open, they caught sight of a heap, whether floury dust or dusty flour, it would have been hard to say, that seemed waiting only for them to help themselves from it. Fain to still the craving of birds too early for any worm, they swallowed a considerable portion of it, choking as it was, nor met with rebuke.
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