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Updated: June 23, 2025
Know all men by these presents," he began, writing the words down as he spake them. "He's going to give us some presents," whispered Fidge, giving Dick a nudge. Dick shook his head reprovingly, and the little man continued "That whereas three children, named respectively what did you say your name was?" "Richard Greville Verrinder, Sir."
They were only the two brass balls at the end posts of his bed, and he was lying in his own little room, with a head like a cannon ball, and a leg like an iron bar. Turning his eyes, he saw the calm face of Dr. Verrinder Smith looking down at him. "Ah, at last!" said she. "I kept you under all the way home, for I knew how painful the jolting would be.
"Richard Greville Verrinder, and what's your sister's name?" "Marjorie Evelyn Verrinder." "Marjorie Evelyn Verrinder, and " "Harold Ellis Verrinder," prompted Dick. "Who's that?" inquired the Ambassador, sharply. "My little brother," was the reply. "You said his name was Fidge." "Oh, yes, but that's his nickname, you know." "I don't know anything of the sort.
Fortunately, just inside the hall I met my little friends the Verrinder children; Vera, the little girl, looking very pretty in her white party frock; and her two brothers, Dick and Fidge, full of excitement and high spirits. They fastened on me at once and dragged me most unceremoniously up to our hostess, who it appears was Vera's godmother, and introduced me in their own fashion.
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