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Updated: June 14, 2025
After she had drunk, the Teacup took a drink to the Plynck, explaining to her with an apologetic smile, "I served her first, my dear, because she was the guest of honor so to speak," and the Plynck assented most graciously.
The Plynck screamed, Schlorge whistled, the Gunki came running from every direction; but it was the Echo who saved the Teacup's life. With great presence of mind she spread out her cerulean plumes so that the Teacup settled upon them harmlessly, instead of crashing down upon the hard emerald bottom and shattering to bits. Then, of course, Schlorge could very easily reach down and draw her out.
But what can be keeping Avrillia?" They all looked down the pathway, but no Avrillia was in sight. Suddenly the Echo of the Plynck spoke from the pool. "The guest of honor always goes and fetches anybody who doesn't come," she said. "Does she?" asked Sara, opening her eyes wide; but Pirlaps said, "To be sure! I had forgotten. Come on, Sara. Let's go bring Avrillia."
He looked as wild and distracted as any of them, but Sara felt a great relief when she saw him, because she knew he was so clever and practical. She felt, too, that she could ask him what the trouble was and he could bear it better than the Teacup, for instance, who, she feared, would go all to pieces, or the Echo of the Plynck, who was clearly all in.
Her first thought, indeed, when she realized what had happened, was to conceal the catastrophe from the Plynck; but before she could get her breath that gentle bird startled her almost out of her wits by shrieking, "Watch out! the Snimmy will get it!"
"Oh, what is it?" cried Sara, afraid to move, yet longing to clap her hand to her cheek; for she knew by a sudden terrible tickling there that something had happened to her southwest dimple and she had meant to be so careful! And yet she had allowed herself to get so interested in the talk of the Plynck and her Echo that she had walked right past Schlorge's beautiful dimple-holder.
But it was a blissful wonder, and she stood spellbound, while the sound of breaking rules continued to fall with an enchanting effect upon the still air of the Garden. All at once she was startled nearly out of her wits by the Plynck, who dropped an unbroken rule and shrieked, "Look! Be careful! Oh, dear, oh, dear, it's in!"
At least," she added, glancing up at the Plynck, who was still circling beautifully around the fountain, "she thinks so. And as long as I live neighbor to her it's sort-of up to me to respect her standards." Avrillia! Ah, now Sara remembered! She had meant to go straight to find Pirlaps and Avrillia!
He was driven to it this time by the fact that Sara had dressed him in the Baby's long clothes. "But what is it?" asked Sara, still bewildered. "Why, it's your laugh, child," said the Echo of the Plynck, who, all this time, had been watching the scene with much amusement. "Don't you know your own laugh when you see it?" "I never saw it before," said Sara with a wondering smile.
The Echo fluffed out her deep blue plumes a little and took up the task. "What are rules for, my dear?" she began. "Why to keep, I guess," ventured Sara, a little flustered. "Aren't they?" The Echo glanced up at the Plynck with a twinkling smile. "Do you hear that?" she asked. "Bless the child! She says rules are made to keep!"
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