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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Oh," cried Juliet, clapping her hands in glee. "It's the very best birthday present we could have, isn't it, Romie?" "I should say," replied that young man, with an expansive smile. "Say," he added to Doctor Jack, "you must be a brick." "I've only done my best," he responded, modestly. Isabel could say nothing for some little time.
"Well, I'll be " he said, half to himself. Unable to stand, Juliet sat down upon the well-worn door-step and he sat down beside her. "It's all my fault," she said, solemnly. "Romie told me this morning that I wasn't a lady, and he wanted me to be like her. He said I was a tomboy, and I told him that if I was, he'd done it himself, and he got mad and went away, and now "
Juliet's momentary self-consciousness was gone, and she was her sunny self again, though she still occasionally wept in secret, longing for her brother. "Aunt Francesca," she said, one day, when the two were sewing on dainty garments destined to adorn Juliet, "do you think Romie will ever come back to me?" "Not in the sense you mean, dear," replied Madame, gently.
"At least people say so. Romie and I aren't popular with our neighbours." "That doesn't speak well for the neighbours. Were they never young themselves?" "I don't believe so. I've thought, sometimes, that lots of people were born grown-up." "They say abroad, that there are no children in America that they are merely little people treated like grown-ups."
She saved a man's life once, two Summers ago." "Romie taught me," said Juliet, beaming at her brother. "Can you row?" he asked, politely. "No," replied Isabel, shortly. "I'm afraid of the water." "Juliet can row. She won the women's canoe race in the regatta last Summer. The prize was twenty-five dollars in gold." "Romie taught me," put in Juliet.
Sometimes it's necessary to break a promise, or to lie, but never to each other. If Romie asks me anything I don't want to tell him, I just say 'King's X, and if I ask him anything, he says 'it's none of your business, and it's all right. Twins have to be square with each other." "Don't you ever quarrel?" "We may differ, and of course we have fought sometimes, but it doesn't last long.
Several really fine paintings adorned the walls, and the dingy mantel was glorified by exquisite bits of Cloisonne and iridescent glass, for which Juliet had a pronounced fancy. "Set the table, will you, Romie?" called Juliet, tying a large blue gingham apron over her sweater. "I'm almost starved." "So'm I, but I've got to feed the dogs first." "Let 'em wait," pleaded Juliet. "Please do!"
"Lonely?" repeated Juliet in astonishment; "why, how could I ever be lonely with Romie?" "Of course you couldn't be lonely when he was there, but you must miss him when he's away from you." "He's never away," she answered, with a toss of her curly head. "We're most always together, unless he goes to town or up to your house," she added, as an afterthought.
"No," Juliet answered, "because just before we did it, we read about it's being called 'God's Acre. So I told Romie that God must be there as much or more than He was anywhere else, so how could we be afraid?" "After you once get it into your head that God is everywhere," added Romeo, "you can't be afraid because there's nothing to be afraid of."
"We don't, either," Romeo explained, "except when it's very cold, and then only a teaspoonful." "The doctor said we didn't need stimulants. What was it he said we needed, Romie?" "Sedatives." "Yes, that was it sedatives. I looked it up in the dictionary. It means to calm, or to moderate. I think he got the word wrong himself, for we don't need to be calmed, or moderated, do we, Romie?"
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