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"Oh," gasped Kitty, "I had forgotten Jabez. Of course he can't drive you, his head is all bandaged. I will go, father; I'd love to drive you." And she meant it. She would quite readily have given up her day in Wenmere Woods to go with him. Dr. Trenire laid his hand tenderly on her shoulder. "It is all right, dear; I shall have Jabez. He has discarded his bandages, and is quite presentable.
None of the Trenire children liked Lady Kitson, though they could hardly have told you why. Poor Kitty felt now that she disliked her exceedingly. "Come into the drawing-room; the girls are there." "The girls" were Lady Kitson's step-daughters. They were both of them older than Kitty, but were inclined to be very friendly.
Life seemed very dull and dreary to all the household, except, perhaps, to Mrs. Pike and Dr. Trenire. The latter was too busy just then to realize the changes going on in his home; while Mrs. Pike was fully occupied with all that lay at her hand to do. Anna's presence did not add at all to the liveliness of the house. She was shy and nervous.
Betty gave a little jump, but as quickly controlled herself again. "Oh, I'd quite forgotten about him," she said calmly. "Tony is in bed." "In bed?" cried Dr. Trenire and Kitty at the same moment. "Isn't he well?" None of them had ever been sent to bed for being naughty, so that illness was the only explanation that occurred to them.
Instead of which it was taken by Jabez, along with his bleeding head, straight into the presence of Dr. Trenire, who happened at the moment to be sitting in his study, trying to get a little sorely-needed rest.
For my part, I should prefer the risk to such a protection in this weather. I'll go and rescue him." But Kitty had already flown. "I forgot to tell Kitty," went on Betty thoughtfully, "that I think the moths have got into the eider-downs, such a lot of them flew out when I moved the quilts." Dr. Trenire groaned.
If you will give her some money, she won't be more than a few minutes. I'll wrap my feet up in two shawls for the time." "I see there is to be no time wasted," said Dr. Trenire. "You are a business-like young person, Betty." "Yes," said Betty, with satisfaction. "You see, I can't do anything until I have them; and if they are going to be bought, they may as well be bought quickly."
Trenire was extremely annoyed and very indignant when he heard of the inquiry and the result so indignant that Kitty's words came true, and she never did set foot within the doors of Hillside again, for her father removed her, and Betty too, from the school at once. Of course Betty could not continue there after all that had happened.
June had come, a brilliantly fine June, and overpoweringly hot. Wind-swept, treeless Gorlay lay shadeless and panting under the blazing sun, and the dwellers there determined that they preferred the cutting winds and driving rains to which they were better accustomed. Dr. Trenire had gone, and Betty and Tony had been inconsolable. The "locum," Dr.
Kitty, Dan, and Betty this year felt a real yearning for a Christmas such as they had read of, and discussed all manner of impossible plans, but there it all ended. Dr. Trenire gave them a book each, and they sat around the schoolroom fire reading them and munching the sweets they had clubbed together to buy, and that was all the festivity they had that year.
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