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Surely no girl in the wide world but Judy Woolcot would have attempted such a harebrained project as walking all those miles with three-and-six in her pocket. "How COULD you?" was all she could find to say. "I hadn't meant to walk all the way," Judy said, with a faint mile.
Take care of her, Woolcot, and she'll make a fine woman some day ay, a grand woman." The Captain smoked four big cigars in the solitude of his study before he could decide how he could best "take care of her." At first he thought he would send her with Meg and the governess to the mountains for a time, but then there was the difficulty about lessons for the other three.
But, given a very particular and rather irritable father, and seven children with excellent lungs and tireless tongues, what could you do but give them separate rooms to take their meals in? Captain Woolcot, the father, in addition to this division, had had thick felt put over the swing door upstairs, but the noise used to float down to the dining-room in cheerful, unconcerned manner despite it.
Captain Woolcot was extraordinarily upset by the occurrence; not one of his children had ever done such a thing before, and as Meg lay on the sofa, with her little fair head drooping against the red frilled cushions, her face white and unconscious, she looked strangely like her mother, whom he had buried out in the churchyard four years ago.
"I was afraid I had mislaid then," he said; "the middle one opens the padlock, Miss Woolcot; the brass fat one is for the two bins, and the long steel one for the cupboard." "Thank you so much. I'm afraid we disturbed you in the middle of your breakfast," Meg said, standing up and blushing because she thought he had noticed her surprise at the bookshelves.
Let us go later, when it is quite dark. It will be EVER so much nicer, for no one will be able to see us. And let us meet at the end of the paddocks where the bush grows thickly, it will be more private. I am writing to Aldith to tell her to go at that time, she will tell Mr. Graham. Yours sincerely, M. Woolcot. "P.S. I must ask you, please, not to kiss me.
"Boiled mutton and carrots and rice pudding," said Nell mournfully. Captain Woolcot severed a leg almost savagely and put it on her plate. "Now run away; I don't know what has possessed you two to-night." Nellie reached the door, then turned back.
Even at church, though the immediate front turned to the minister might be passable, the people in the next pew had always an uninterrupted view of the black rim where washing operations had left off. The next on the list I am going from youngest to oldest, you see was the "show" Woolcot, as Pip, the eldest boy, used to say.
Her tender rose dreams had pictured her big protege a man among men again, holding up his head once more, taking his place in the world, going back to the old country, and claiming the noble lady her fertile imagination had pictured; waiting so patiently for him; and all this because she, Meg Woolcot, had stepped into his life and pointed the way he should go.
Two of the men looked foolish, the third took off his cap. "I am sorry you should have overheard us, Miss Woolcot," he said pleasantly. "Still, there is no irreparable harm done, is there? Yes, your father has gone away in a cab. He couldn't imagine how the little boy came on his bed, and, as he couldn't keep him here very well, I suppose he has taken him home."
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