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"Well, you see, Aunt Pike would make us wear these ugly, woolly, itchy things, and " Betty's voice waxed indignant "she wouldn't believe us when we said we couldn't, and so well, I thought of it first we wore our black cotton ones under these, and then we didn't feel them." "I see," said Dr. Trenire, a smile beginning to twinkle in his eyes. "And you were not found out?"
Trenire and Aunt Pike, bidding them come home at once; while poor Kitty, overcome with fatigue and anxiety and remorse that this should have happened while she was in charge of them all, went and shut herself up in her room, locking out even Betty.
Then the last day came, and the last hour, and then Kitty found herself once more with her father's arms about her. "Why, father," she cried, standing back and studying carefully his cheerful, sunburnt face, and his look of health and strength, "you are more like the old father than you have been for ever so long." Dr. Trenire burst into a roar of hearty laughter.
Trenire around the table, and Aunt Pike in her big chair near the window when suddenly the door was burst open, and Anna, whose absence had set them all wondering, walked in. "I have done it!" she cried excitedly. "I have told them all Lady Kitson and Miss Richards and Miss Matilda and and now," sobbing hysterically with nervous excitement, "I want to go away from Gorlay. I can't stay here.
I don't believe she is so awfully, awfully clever as they say, and nobody knows but what I may be clever too, only people haven't noticed it yet. I am sure I feel as if I might be." It was unfortunate, though, for the Trenire girls that Mrs.
Trenire, looking over the heads of Dan and Kitty, saw her, and guessing who she was, went at once and met her with such a cordial greeting that she felt herself one of them from that moment; and Kitty, remorseful for her forgetfulness, brought up Betty and Tony to be introduced.
Trenire leaned forward and pulled the right rein sharply. "Take care, child," he cried; "you will have us over in a moment. You have almost got this wheel over the edge of the ditch. You must learn to attend to the business in hand, or you will never succeed in anything. Another inch and you would have upset us, and probably have broken a spring." Dr.
Trenire, understanding her nature, let her have her way, and followed the impatient maid to the sickroom. Kitty, greatly relieved, was fastening the reins to the splashboard before getting down to light the lamps, when a man appeared around the corner of the house, and came towards her.
"Thank you, Fanny; you are a dear," she said gratefully; "and I will go and light some lights about the house by the time father has done with that patient he has in with him now." Kitty had a great idea of making the house bright and cheerful, but in her zeal she forgot the heat of the night. "Phew! my word!" gasped Dr. Trenire as he came presently to the dining-room.
"We did think of it, father," she said earnestly; "but Kitty said she didn't want to seem to be always complaining about Aunt Pike." "I see," said Dr. Trenire quietly, and he gazed for a moment gravely into the fire before he left the room.
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