DR. ADRIAAN
73
She shook the kaleidoscope: the colours, from a square, changed their figure into a star.
"Green, blue, red!" the child cried.
"Now shake again. . . ."
"Blue and yellow."
"There, what do you say to that?"
"Lovely! . . . Lovely! . . ."
She sat down on the floor, suddenly quiet and good, peered and shook the little cylinder, peered and shook it again. In the gaudy star she suddenly beheld a paradise:
"Green, yellow, blue."
Addie relieved Grandmamma of the book, put it down and began to arrange the dominoes in the box.
"It's been blowing," said the old woman, pointing through the window. "There are great branches lying in the garden."
