of dusters, so that Mrs. Dewpond should say, "My darlings, but how they are ravishing!" They loved to hear her say this.
One day Mrs. Dewpond was not very well; and then there were more days when she was no better; and first a doctor came, and then a nurse came, and then she and the nurse went away into the country together to see if that would do her any good. And all the time Mr. Dewpond went about the house saying "T'chk, t'chk, t'chk" to himself, and looking very miserable; and Anne Mary wrote to her Mother every day to say that they were all getting on all right and did want her back so badly; and Terry ended up her prayers every night with, "And may she suddenly come back tomorrow morning about half past seven, so that I can wake up and there she is"; and George kissed the door of her Mother's empty bedroom every time she passed it, as
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