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We must get my new father that is to be on the spot to-night, and if you don't telegraph for him I shall myself take the next train to Nortonbury, and tackle him on the subject. I don't in the least mind which it is, but one or other must be done directly." "Antonia, you quite terrify me. Sir John will be seriously angry." "What of that. Let him be angry."
Willis was to leave the Grange immediately after lunch, and Hester and Annie were to accompany her to Nortonbury in the landau. Just as the carriage drove up to the house, Mrs. Willis remembered the ring and spoke to Annie. "My dear," she said with a smile, "I am leaving the house without my ring.
She thrust the paper into her pocket and rushed from the room. The girls spent a busy morning in Nortonbury, and if Annie had any care on her mind she certainly did not show it. She was a splendid girl to go shopping with. She could make up her mind quickly with regard to the exact material she required.
"I'll get up and get you your breakfast. I'll boil the kettle here, and make your tea and toast your bread. You must go to Nortonbury, and you must be back between ten and eleven o'clock." "And when I go what am I to do there, my dear? Oh, dear, dear, the ways of the young of the present day are masterful beyond belief. You make me all of a quiver, Miss Annie."
I'm sure we never were extravagant; we didn't care a bit what we wore nor what we ate; and I know the grammar school at Nortonbury is cheap enough, and I really don't think Jane Macalister gets ten pounds a year.
She lit a fire in the old lady's sitting-room, and toasted her bread with her own fair hands, and made the tea for her to drink. Mrs. Martin started on her journey to Nortonbury with many fervent blessings from Annie, who then returned in a high state of content to her own room. The parcel of cambric arrived in due time, and Annie cut out the first of the three frocks that morning.
Many and wild were the plans which Nan proposed. They would start for a picnic at six in the morning. They would order ices from Nortonbury to arrive by special messenger at some impossible place at an unearthly hour. They would have bonfires on the top of every hill within a reasonable distance.
Martin excitedly as she spoke, "you must, you shall help me." "And you want me to lend you the money, my pet?" "No; how can you imagine such a thing. But I'll tell you what I want you to do. I want you to get up early to-morrow morning, quite early, and to make one of the grooms drive you into Nortonbury." "Sakes alive! What for? I'm not used to the air without my breakfast."
There are quantities of interesting and lovely places, according to Sir Lionel, where one ought to go from Gloucester, especially with a motor, which makes seeing things easier than not seeing them; there's Cheltenham, with a run which gives glorious views over the Severn Valley; and Stonebench, where you can best see the foaming Severn Bore; and Tewkesbury, which you'll be interested to know is the Nortonbury of an old book you love "John Halifax, Gentleman"; and Malvern; and there's even Stratford-on-Avon, not too far away for a day's run.
Willis; she expects to reach Nortonbury by the mid-day train, and asks me to send to meet her. Oh, dear, this is lovely. I have not seen my dear Mrs. Willis for over a year. What a rest and comfort it will be to talk to her again. Molly, you will delight in her; she is just the woman to captivate you completely. Nora, you will lose your heart to her, too.
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