It
would be such fun, too, introducing Flick to the two kittens! At Betty's
suggestion, Flick had been shut out from the scullery after Josephine's
kittens were born, and that though the dog and the cat got on extremely
well together. In fact, Flick was the only creature in the world with
whom Josephine, since she had reached an approximately mature age, ever
condescended to play.
And now poor Josephine and her kittens were to be banished to the old
stable, and to-morrow driven back ignominiously to Epsom, all because of
that tiresome, hateful Mrs. Crofton!
There was no one in the kitchen, and it did not look as tidy as it
generally looked; though the luncheon things had been washed up, they had
not been put away.
Mother and son walked on into the scullery to find Betty there, boiling
some water over a spirit lamp. "Betty? How very delightful you look!" her
step-mother exclaimed. "Just like an old picture, child! Wherever did you
get that charming motor-bonnet?"
And then Timmy chipped in: "_I_ thought of it," he said triumphantly; "it
was _my_ idea, Mum, but Godfrey paid for it. He said he hadn't given
Betty a proper present yet, so he _had_ to pay for it, and, and--"
Janet was just a little surprised.
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