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Is it what you call a breakfast cap?" "My dear man, it's a bonnet! My very best go-to-concert-and-theater bonnet." "I beg your pardon, it was so small, I naturally mistook it for one of the flyaway things you sometimes wear. How do you keep it on?"
Grandma smiled, and wondered if people, in the good old Bible days, were in the habit of using pet names, and if Pharaoh's daughter ever called the Hebrew boy "Mosey." She was about to begin another story, when Flyaway said, "Guess I'll go out, now," and slid off the bed. There was an orange on the table. She took it, held it behind her, and walked quickly to the door.
As this was a very long speech for a baby two months old, the audience were taken by surprise, and laughed heartily. Poor little Flyaway was lifted out of the shawl, and kissed over and over again. She had not played properly, it is true, but she had intended to do right, and was applauded for her good intentions. Dotty saw and heard the whole.
"Now cry," said Percy; "cry just as if you had soap in your eyes." "Ee! Ee!" wailed Katie, loudly. "No, cry weak; cry just as you did when you were a baby." "I don't 'member when I was a baby, 'twas so many years ago," sighed Flyaway. But she practised crying again, and succeeded very well, Dotty all the while looking on in grim displeasure.
If you don't you'll have to take the consequences." "And we warn you to keep off. If you don't we'll shoot at you," was the somewhat surprising response. "No, no; please don't shoot at them!" came in Dom's voice. "I beg of you not to shoot!" She had escaped from Mrs. Goss' custody and now ranged up alongside of Dan Baxter and her other enemies who were handling the Flyaway.
At the dessert I rose and proposed the health of my future bride. "And may it be years before she arrives at The Beauties!" mumbled Percy Flyaway when they had drunk the toast. "I hope you will all welcome her at a grand reception here in about a month or six weeks." I remembered just in time that I had best not fix a date, as something might intervene.
It seemed to him only a little while, but when he opened his eyes again Lisa was beside him with his dinner; and after dinner he slept again, and when he awakened the lawn was in shadow, and the sun low in the sky, and the birds were twittering and seeking their nests, and Miss Rachel was telling Joe to put cushions in the boat, the Flyaway; and presently Phil found himself floating gently on the lovely water of the lake, and the cottage and lawn and arbors were looking like a pretty bit of landscape he had seen in books.
With the going down of the sun the wind died away and the sails of the Searchlight flapped idly to and fro. "Now it's a waiting game," announced Martin Harris. "If we can't move neither can they." "Just the same, the Flyaway is turning out to sea!" cried Tom. "Now what can that mean?" "That may be only a blind," said Carter.
"Bring her over here, and we will try to amuse her," said the black-eyed lady, pleasantly; but Horace was sure he saw the oldest girl laughing at him. "It's no fun to go and make a fool of yourself," thought he, leading Fly to the new acquaintances, and standing by as she settled herself shyly in the seat. "How do you do, little one? What is your name? Flyaway? Well, you look like it.
Ma, did you ever believe a word that lady said afterwards?" "Flatterers are not generally to be trusted," replied Mrs. Clifford. "Flyaway, that is the fourth needle you have lost." Here was another lesson for Dotty's memory-shelf. "I must not say things that are not true, just to be polite. It is flattering and wicked; and besides that, people always know better."
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