"How lively he is!" said Prudence in admiration. "Just like a puppy! How did you get him home if he danced about like this?"
"It was a troublesome business I assure you," answered Miss Augusta, who was too much interested and excited to sulk long with her sister. "He jumped out of my arms and frisked up and down the carriage in the liveliest way, so that I had the greatest difficulty in catching him again. He was in the wildest state of delight you can imagine, barked and leaped on all the passengers, just fancy, and he has been so rheumatic for years! I could scarcely hold him under my cloak. He sprang out of my arms once and very nearly broke the bottle I was carrying."
"How dreadful! What on earth should we have done if he had smashed it."
"Well, fortunately he didn't," said Miss Augusta shortly, refusing to contemplate such a calamity.
