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Updated: May 9, 2025
She made up her mind then and there to decorate her bedroom with her most treasured nick-nacks on the afternoon of the Vanburghs' visit, and to keep her new hair ribbon unused for the occasion. But no Miss Vanburghs appeared! The next day passed, and the next, and still another, and still no sign of a feminine presence lightened the dark windows of the Grange.
"Children, children!" she cried breathlessly, "the Vanburghs have arrived! They came late last night, cook says. She saw the table laid for breakfast this morning, and the postman said he had taken some letters to the house." "Arrived!" The girls stared at one another in mingled excitement and disgust. "And we never saw them!
There are a thousand things to be done." The girls unanimously agreed in this decision. Nevertheless, the hope that one of the four Miss Vanburghs might appear at the windows kept them glued to their own posts until it was time to start for the daily walk.
Not only were there no Miss Vanburghs, but the only Vanburgh who was left refused to open his door to visitors! "Piteous!" cried Chrissie; and Agatha struck her hands together in despair. "There ought to be a law about it a law to prevent hermits from buying the best houses in a neighbourhood. Does he mean to say that he will see nobody?" she cried.
They longed for the time to come when doubt would be put at an end; but the Vanburghs seemed in no hurry to appear, and meanwhile April was at hand, and, as was their custom, Mr and Mrs Rendell prepared to leave home on a short holiday, leaving the girls alone to battle with the terrors of spring-cleaning.
I wouldn't have believed you could have been so deceitful. But do tell us if you know anything of the Vanburghs, Mr Talbot. Did you ever meet any one of the name?" "I met a man once a fellow about my own age. He was at Oxford with me, but not at the same college. I saw very little of him." "That could not be the father, of course. He would have to be a son, and we never arranged for boys.
Nan shivered at an attic window for an hour on end, with no more exciting result than a glimpse of a tablecloth and a row of silver dishes; and the great nailed door remained persistently closed. And then the blow fell! There were no Miss Vanburghs! There was not even a Mrs Vanburgh!
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