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Maud, dressed as a huckster, had a basket filled with apples, oranges, nuts and candies. Sydney, wearing an old cloak and straw hat, had a basket on her arm in which were needles, tapes, buttons, pins, and other small wares such as are often hawked about the streets. Lulu and Eva brought up the rear, carrying the parrot and Gracie's kitten.
I expect you did too when you were young." "I!" Sir Beverley uttered a harsh laugh, and released the child's hand. "So you break the law, do you?" he said. "How often?" Gracie's laugh followed his like a silvery echo. "I shan't tell you 'cos you're a magistrate. But we weren't really begging, Pat and I. At least it wasn't for ourselves." "Oh, of course not!" said Sir Beverley.
"Oh please don't hurry for my sake," said Eva, adding softly, "You know I, too, shall be glad of a few minutes alone with my best Friend. So if you like, I will go into the little tower room while your papa is with you." "You can have both that and my bedroom to yourself, dear," returned Lulu, "for I shall receive papa in the little sitting room that is Gracie's and mine."
"That I own him and love him," Marion said, her cheeks glowing now as Gracie's did, "and that I want above all things, to fulfill his law, and yet that I have miserably failed, even this first day." Among Marion's sad thoughts that day had been: "There is no one to know, or to care, whether I am different or not.
Gracie's fingers tightened convulsively upon Avery's hand, and she turned as white as the table-cloth. Mr. Lorimer, however, looked over her head as if she did not exist, and addressed Avery. "Mrs. Denys, be so good as to spare me two minutes in the study!" he said with extreme formality. "Certainly," Avery made quiet reply. "I will come to you before I go back to Mrs. Lorimer."
"A grown person is no rule for a child," observed Violet, gently smoothing Gracie's hair; "children need to eat enough to supply material for growth in addition to the waste of the system. Was it by the advice of a competent physician you subjected her to such a regimen?" "I've always had medical advice for her when it was needed," snapped Mrs. Scrimp.
He could not follow her thought. Then she said: "Gratian condemns Cyril. Don't let her. I won't have him badly thought of. It was my doing. I wanted to make sure of him." George answered stoutly: "Gracie's upset, of course, but she'll soon be all right. You mustn't let it come between you. The thing you've got to keep steadily before you is that life's a huge wide adaptable thing.
"So do you, sir," returned Max; "and I'm so glad, for you've been looking heart-broken ever since you came home." "Pretty much as I have felt," he sighed, patting Gracie's cheek as he spoke. "We are just as happy as we can be, papa," she said; "only I" "Well?" he said inquiringly as she paused, leaving her sentence unfinished.
One for Gracie also exactly like it, except that Lulu's was lined with red satin and Gracie's with blue. Each had beside a new doll with a neat little trunk packed full of clothes made to fit it, and a box filled with pretty things to make up into doll clothes. Max was greatly surprised and delighted by finding himself the possessor of a watch, doubly valuable to him as his father's gift.
Lily caught it, and, although she had intended to be very offish and high and mighty with Gracie for the rest of her days, her heart smote her, and flinging her former resolution to the winds, she followed Maggie's example, and laying her hand persuasively on Gracie's muff, said, with her usual directness: "Oh, come on, Gracie! Don't let's have any more madness and being offended among us.
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