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Updated: June 10, 2025
Granny always called the window-seat in our tiny drawing-room my 'watch-tower. I had very long sight and I had found out that there was a bit of the road from Moor Court where I could see the pony-cart passing, like a little dark speck, before it got hidden again among the trees.
Two women, wearing men's jackets on their gowns, conducted in the rear of the halting procession a pony-cart containing a tapped barrel of beer, from which they drew and replenished horns that were handed round, with bread-and-cheese from a basket.
The father, on the other hand, came over in the shabby pony-cart he had driven for the last forty years, and having himself no press of business, would spend hours with the rector over the cases, giving them an infinity of patient watching, and amusing Robert by the cautious hostility he would allow himself every now and then towards his son's new-fangled devices.
The upshot of it all was that on the following day a very large and very shabby bedroom was got ready after a fashion for Miss Tredgold's arrival; and John, the sole factotum of the establishment the man who cleaned the boots and knives, and swept up the avenue, removed the weeds from the flower-beds, cleaned the steps whenever they were cleaned, and the windows whenever they were cleaned appeared on the scene, leading a tumble-down, knock-kneed pony harnessed to a very shabby pony-cart.
Dick and Veronica returned laden with parcels. They explained that "Daddy Slee," as it appeared he was generally called, a local builder of renown, was following in his pony-cart, and was kindly bringing the bulkier things with him. "I tried to hustle him," said Dick, "but coming up after he had washed himself and had his tea seemed to be his idea of hustling.
Sharley and her sisters used to come together, sometimes walking with a maid, sometimes driving over in a little pony-cart not the beautiful carriage with the two ponies; that was their mother's but what is called a governess-cart, in which they drove a fat old fellow called Bunch, too fat and lazy to be up to much mischief.
And, strange as it may seem, Mrs. Merrill was thinking that very same thing about Winifred. How much there was for the two little friends to talk about the next day! Gilbert and Fluff had started off at an early hour to bring home the pony-cart, and early in the afternoon Betty Hastings came to see Ruth.
There was not room for him in the pony-cart, and for him to race along the streets might well mean that he would again disappear; so Ruth had been quite ready to leave him at home. But now she would have been very glad to have him running along beside her.
"I'll send Joe one way, and drive the other way myself in the pony-cart. They can't have got far yet." He hurried out of the garden, and Mrs Vallance was left alone with her prize. It was almost too good to be true.
Mother has written to tell Mrs Forrest that we're not going on with lessons." They parted with a careless shake of the hands, and Anna was driven away in the pony-cart. Her friendship with Isabel, her pleasant visits to Pynes, were over now. She was humbled and disgraced before every one, and Delia would know it too.
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