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Updated: June 9, 2025
"There never was anybody more wicked than you 'cept me. We are both as bad as bad can be. But I tell you what, Paulie, though I meant to tell, I am not going to tell now; for but for you I'd have been drownded, and I am never, never, never going to tell." "But for me!" said Pauline, and the expression on her face was somewhat vague. "Oh, Paulie, how white you look! No, I will never tell.
I'll come back again. This is Friday night. I'll come back on Monday night. The picnic is arranged for Wednesday night. Listen, Paulie; you will have to change your mind, for if you don't well!" "If I don't?" "I can make it very hot for you." "What do you mean?" "I'll come and have a talk with your aunt. There!" "Oh, Nancy. What about?" "Such an interesting story, darling!
There is something on their minds. I am certain of it." "Verena," said her aunt gently, "I wonder if I might confide in you." Verena started back; a distressed look came over her face. "If it happens to be anything against Paulie, perhaps I had better not hear," she said. "I do not know if it is for her or against her. I am as much in the dark as you.
They were all tired. Verena came for a minute into Pauline's little room. "I am too sleepy even to brush my hair in your room to-night, Paulie," she said. "I am too sleepy to talk about our long happy day. What a pile of presents you have got! Don't you think you have had a perfect birthday? I only wish mine was near at hand." "It will come in good time," said Pauline; "and even birthdays "
"Of course we won't tell, Paulie." "And you love me, don't you?" "Yes," echoed both little girls. "This is my question. If I do something that is not just exactly absolutely right, will you still love me?" "Why, of course. We're not so wonderfully good ourselves," said Briar. "I know what you are thinking of," said Patty. "You are thinking of Punishment Day. But we have forgotten all about that."
"Oh, dear! I'd forgotten. It's you, Paulie. How is your arm, my little dear? Any better?" "It hurts me very badly indeed; but never mind about that now. How am I to get home?" "I'll manage that. Betty, our dairymaid, is to throw gravel up at the window at four o'clock. You shall have a cup of tea before you start, and I will walk with you as far as the wicket-gate." "Oh, thank you!
Only, for goodness' sake, Paulie, don't let that burn in the sleeve of your dress be seen; that would lead to consequences, and I don't want my midnight picnic to be spoilt." "I don't seem to care about that or anything else any more." "What nonsense! You don't suppose I should like this little escapade of yours and mine to be known. You must take care. Why, you know, there's father.
The words had scarcely passed her lips before Harry darted back. A wave from the incoming tide had rolled over his feet. Pen uttered a sudden cry: "I am frightened. I won't drown. I am awful frightened." She began to shriek. "Try and keep up your courage, darling," said Pauline. "It won't be long. It will be quickly over, and I will stay close to you. Paulie will be close to you."
"I stayed awake and thought of Paulie, and I seemed to see her face as it might look if she were really dead. I wish they'd all come back, for Paulie is better. And then we'd have just a dreadful ten minutes, and everything would be all right." "That's it," said Patty. "Everything would be all right." Pauline was certainly better, although she was not what she was before.
The moonlight was in the room, and Pauline's face looked ghastly, but it looked beautiful also. Her eyes were very big and dark and solemn and beseeching. Briar and Patty glanced at each other. "Shall we?" said Briar. "It seems the only thing to do," said Patty. "All the same, it is awfully wrong," said Briar. "Think of poor Paulie," said Patty. "If we are discovered " cried Briar.
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