'No,' said Lily, 'I know Monsieur Maurice too well to arouse his
wrath so justly. If you choose to release the pretty creature, I
shall be charmed.'
'You forget that I am in charge,' said Jane.
'There is a carriage coming to the front gate,' cried Ada. 'Emily,
may I go into the drawing-room? Oh, Jenny, will you undo my brown
holland apron?'
'That is right, little mincing Miss,' said Reginald, with a low bow;
'how fine we are to-day.'
'How visitors break into the afternoon,' said Emily, with a languid
turn of her head.
'Jenny, brownie,' called Maurice from his bedroom window, 'I want the
sulphuric acid.'
Jane sprang up and ran into the house, though her sisters called
after her, that she would come full upon the company in the hall.
'They shall not catch me here,' cried Reginald, rushing off into the
shrubbery.
'Are you coming in, Claude?' said Emily.
'Send Ada to call me, if there is any one worth seeing,' said Claude
'They will see you from the window,' said Emily.
'No,' said Claude, 'no one ever found me out last summer, under these
friendly branches.'
The old butler, Joseph, now showed himself on the terrace; and the
young ladies, knowing that he had no intention of crossing the lawn,
hastened to learn from him who their visitors were, and entered the
house.
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