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Updated: June 23, 2025
It was thick with snow, and the air was still and heavy-laden. It had been like twilight all day long. As she neared the hill above the hut on the Naze, darkness began to fall. She had run all the way and only stopped at the corner of the house, to get her breath. There was a humming in her ears, and through the hum she heard angry voices: Granny's crying, and her mother's hard and merciless.
I looked at her as she said that, for I felt rather surprised. It was never granny's way to expect trouble before it comes. I saw that her face was rather anxious. But just as I was going to speak, to say some little word about its not being likely that anything was wrong, I gave one other glance towards Waving View. This time I was not disappointed. 'Oh, granny, I exclaimed, 'there they are!
"Ah, little star, little star!" said the child, laughing aloud, "I knew you were there, though I could not see you. Will you whisper to the Christmas angels as they come by that little Gretchen wants so very much to have a Christmas gift tomorrow morning, if they have one to spare, and that she has put one of Granny's shoes upon the windowsill for it?"
There was nothing to say against it, only grandmamma observed, "I am too old to catch things; Joe will let me stay and keep house for him." "Please, please let me stay with granny," insisted Janet; "then I shall finish my German classes." Janet was granny's child.
But there must be some of both when an old worn woman has to feed two mouths; and you may be glad that Granny's the witch she is. None but she cares for you and lazy, no folks shall ever call her that. She's two-and-seventy years now, and 'tis for others her hands have toiled all along. But never a hand that's lifted to help old Maren."
Oh, we had such lots there, such lovely ones, roses, and violets, jessamine and lilac, and may oh, all sorts. I had a garden of my own, too. Oh, I'd love to take you to granny's, and let you see it all!" Charlie was watching her and listening with intense interest. "How sorry you must be to leave it all!" he remarked sympathetically.
"If you're quiet I shan't hurt you, but if you make a noise and bring a crowd round, I'll thrash you to within an inch of your life. Do you hear?" "Let me go," wailed Jessie, struggling to release her wrist. "I must go home, granny's waiting for me, she is ill." "And I've been waiting for you longer than 'granny' has. I've been waiting hours. Your grandfather's gone away, isn't he?"
As Granny and she got ready for bed that night, Gretchen put her arms softly around Granny's neck, and whispered: "What a beautiful Christmas we have had to-day, Granny! Is there anything in the world more lovely than Christmas?" "Nay, child, nay," said Granny, "not to such loving hearts as yours."
Cook came up to Granny's room to take orders for the evening dinner, and Terry and Turly were to be permitted to dine with the grown people. In due time the father and mother arrived, both quite young people, and looking more like the grown-up brother and sister of Terry and Turly than their parents.
Terry was sitting at the nursery fire waiting to be summoned to Granny's sitting-room. She had on her pretty white frock, her gold curls were all brushed up into a thousand shining rings, and her blue silk work-bag was hanging by its ribbons from her arms. She had been extremely good and quiet all day, and she was intending to behave nicely to Gran'ma during the evening.
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