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Updated: May 19, 2025
It all seemed to fit beautifully, true, the pale blue shoes looked rather odd beside the sailor-blue stockings she was wearing, and she wondered what kind of stockings her mother intended her to wear at Summerlands and she could not get the little lace kerchief arranged quite to her taste; but the cap went on charmingly, and so did the long mittens, which were beside the shoes.
She had been alone, except for poor little Fixie, all the afternoon; and the last hour or so she had been patiently waiting for Rosy to come to the nursery to tell her, as she had promised, all her adventures. "I'm going to bed," repeated Rosy. "Won't you stay and talk a little?" said Bee; "you said you would tell me about Summerlands." "I'm too tired," said Rosy.
"Rosy and her aunt have a great deal to say to each other after being so long without meeting," and Miss Vincent looked pleased at this, as Rosy's mother meant her to be. "By-the-bye," continued Mrs. Vincent, "has Rosy told you all about the fête there is going to be at Summerlands?" Summerlands was the name of Lady Esther's house.
"Not go to the party! we must go," she exclaimed, and before Nelson knew what she was about, off Rosy had rushed to confide this new trouble to Bee, and hear what she would say about it. Bee, too, looked grave, for her heart was greatly set on the idea of the Summerlands fete. "I don't know," she replied. "I hope dear little Fixie is not going to be very ill.
I hope she has learnt a lesson more than one lesson but, if she were to have the pleasure of going to Summerlands, she might not remember it so well." Beata said no more she could not oppose Rosy's mother but she shook her head a little sadly. "I don't think Rosy's like that, Aunt Lillias," she said; "I don't think it would make her forget."
Miss Vincent is going a drive and you are to go with her." "Oh!" exclaimed Rosy, "I don't think I want to go." "I think you must," said Bee, though she could not help sighing a little. "Miss Vincent is going to Summerlands," said Samuel. "Oh, then I do want to go," said Rosy. "Never mind, Bee I wish you were going too. But I'll tell you all I hear about the party when I come' back.
And that next morning brought back to all their minds what, for the moment, had been almost forgotten that it was within three days of the fete at Summerlands! for there came a note from Lady Esther, giving some particulars about the hour she hoped they would all come, and rejoicing in the promise of fine weather for the children's treat. Rosy's mother read the note aloud.
Vincent herself, yet Rosy's mother felt sure that Nelson blamed Bee for the loss, and wished others to do so, and she was afraid of what might be said in the nursery if the subject was still spoken about. So nothing unkind was actually said to Beata, but Rosy's cold manner and careless looks were hard to bear. And the days were drawing near for the long looked forward to fete at Summerlands.
And even after that she did not come back to the other children, but went into her aunt's room to look over some things they had bought in the little town they had passed, coming home. She just put her head in at the nursery door, seeming in very high spirits, and called out to Bee that she would tell her how nice it had been at Summerlands. But the evening went on.
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