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Kind Miss Millet and Alie had dressed it up with cowslips after Biddy had gone to bed the night before, for there were cowslips, and very pretty ones, to be had in some woods a mile or two inland from Seacove. And May birthdays always make one think of cowslips.
Then she ran after her mother, and Bridget followed them at some little distance. They went directly down the street which a little farther on ran into Pier Street, Biddy feeling more and more ashamed of herself. How she wished she had been less hasty, and not spoken so rudely and crossly to her mother. It did seem true, as Alie said, that she spoilt everything.
I don't like having lessons quite alone without Alie or nobody, said Biddy. 'Would you like it better if you had some one to learn with you some one nearer your age than Alie, who would do the very same lessons? asked her mother. Biddy's eyes sparkled. 'I should think I would, she said, 'but there isn't nobody' then she gave a sort of gasp.
A naughty spirit came over Biddy, even though in her heart she was sorry. 'No, she said. 'I don't want to see the little girl, and I don't want to come in, and her face grew still more sullen. 'Very well, said her mother, 'stay there then. But as she entered the shop with Alie she whispered to her, 'I really don't know what to do with Biddy. She has such a very bad temper, Alie.
Vane authoritatively, laying down his knife and fork as he spoke. 'Now, Rosalys, tell the whole story properly. Alie did so, and as Randolph had already explained about meeting Mr. Redding, it was not long before his father and mother understood the real facts clearly. 'We couldn't have refused to go into the parlour when Mrs. Fairchild asked us like that could we, mamma? Rosalys wound up.
'What a nice birthday it's been! said Bride, as she and Alie kissed Celestina, whose mother managed to spare an hour to come to fetch her and at the same time to wish Biddy 'many happy returns. 'How good of you to dress the dolls for me, Mrs. Fairchild! she went on. 'I think I shall love the doll-house more and more every day, for, you see, it's full of kind things you've all done for me.
And I don't see how things are to improve with her. Rosalys was a perfect little woman at her age. Bridget thinks of nothing I have seen it so much since we came here and during the bustle of the removal from London. She lives like a complete baby perhaps it is partly that Alie is so unusually thoughtful and helpful, a real right-hand to me, and Rough too for a boy is very sensible.
'You aren't a bit stumpy you're just nice, said Rosalys, 'though I daresay you will grow some more. Just think what a little roundabout you once were, and how you've grown since then. 'Yes indeed, laughed Biddy. 'Talking of birthdays, Alie, do you remember my eighth birthday?
The little girl was in a great fidget to get to Pier Street, and stood murmuring to herself that she didn't believe they'd ever come; Alie might make mamma be quick, she knew how she, Biddy, wanted to see Celestina and her dolls' room. 'But nobody cares about what I want, she added to herself, with the discontented look on her face which so spoilt its round rosy pleasantness.
It was the penny counter for which they were really bound, and to which Rough piloted them with an air of great pride. 'There, now, he said, waving his hand like a show-man; 'what do you say to that, girls? All these things everything you can see as far as here for a penny! Biddy gasped; even Alie was impressed. 'They're really very nice, Biddy, she said.
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