Part 26 (2/2)
”Here we are, Grannie,” dick exclai up the front steps to where Grannie stood with a slad to be here, you bet your best Sunday bonnet London is like a baker's oven You look very fit, Grannie, and Jerry says Aunt Mary is too young to be my aunt; I believe he is spoons on her already--what ho! ave Jerry's ar Outram shook hands with a smile that won Grannie's heart at once
Mollie had li-rooave her a brotherly peck, and Jerry looked at her coly It was rather difficult to reconcile this pale, li Ti a bit like a mashed potato,” dick remarked critically ”You've been shut up in the house too much It's time we came and hauled you out I'll tell you what, Aunt Polly-wolly- doodle, we'll take her out for a drive in the trap this afternoon”
”We'll see,” said Aunt Mary ”I aht tumble her out in the exuberance of your spirits Besides, it is going to rain--it is drizzling already”
”Pouf!” said dick lightly ”What's a little rain! A little soft, wet rain will do her good And Long John see his fat head off; he played no end of jinks co just now I'll take him round to the stables--I want to see the puppies Hop in, Moll We'll bring you back in a queen's chair”
But Grannie insisted upon soht refreshment first She was sure the boys must be exhausted after their two hours' journey frohtthe way to the dining-roo of crealy upon the table
The boys consented to the feeding-up process without a murmur When the plates were all empty they departed on a round of visits to the stable, tennis-court, tool-shed, and other haunts dear to the heart of boy Aunt Mary firmly refused to allow Mollie to accompany them, even in the queen's chair they offered
”You are tired already,” she said to her niece, ”and if you want to go for that drive this afternoon you must certainly rest first Back to your sofa, Miss Mollie--aith you!”
So Mollie rested, with a book in her lap and her thoughts by turns far away and near hooverness-cart, with a list of e, and another list of extravagant pro benefits she was to derive froot over his first fine raptures, and was noilling to jog along the sweet country lanes at a steady and sober pace, suitable for the invalid he carried behind him
”How jolly nice it does look after London,” Jerry re branch of honeysuckle swept his cap on to the floor of the trap, where he let it lie unconcernedly ”After all--there's no place like old England For looks, anyhow”
”Each to his choice, and I rejoice The lot has fallen to round-- Yea, Sussex by the sea,”
Mollie quoted, as they ca incline In the distance they saw the sea gleareyly under a brief spell of sunshi+ne All around thereen and cool and wet
”They look like green dia his cap drop beside Jerry's and allowing the reins to fall loosely on Long John's back, as the pony edged to the side of the road and began to nibble the grass ”Rather different fros, isn't it?”
This re ”What do you think it was?” Mollie began
”Blessed if I know,” dick answered, with a shake of his head, ”blue ic of some sort Unless we all dreahtfully ”It was sis just as queer Awfully funny things happen in India And look at the 'phantom armies' in France”
”Rot,” said dick briefly ”_I_ think it was a kink in Mollie's brain, and she passed it on to me We do, sometimes Mother says all twins do And your silly head was as empty as usual and you psychicked it from me”
”Rot,” said Jerry, with asparrot as soon as you did, if not sooner”
”It wasn't rot,” Mollie said decidedly; ”whatever it was it wasn't rot _I_ think--” she paused for a moment to consider her words--”I believe it may have been just what Prue said it was We travelled back in Time It sounds is that happen noould have sounded impossible to those children, or at any rate to Papa and Mamma If Alice in Wonderland could have seen forty years ahead she would have found it quite easy to believe six is before breakfast
There's sub, and wireless, especially telephones, and the cine picture of a sub round, and a lecture wirelessed froramophone, and thewould not have seemed ain ”It's different,” he said ”All those things ht have seemed very wonderful and _almost_ impossible, but they weren't _quite_ i is”