[CHAPTER V.]
LATE AT NIGHT.
"WELL, I hope you are satisfied," Narcissus remarked sleepily, when she and Marigold had retired to their bedroom. "You'd better have left things alone, and not have got mother to go with us. It just spoilt half our pleasure. I told you, she'd be sure to turn cross."
"I can't think what it was that put her out."
"Anything puts her out. If nothing at all is said, she fancies something is meant. I know how it is. I've lived with her longer than you."
"Yes, I know you have."
"And I told you how it would turn out."
"Yes, I know you did." Marigold spoke dreamily.
"Then why couldn't you believe me?"
"I think I did. It wasn't believing or not believing. It was because I thought I ought."