"Very well, Miss. Only why can't the Others go back to Abroad where they belong?"
And when Baby heard that, she went to the back-door, and peeped.
And there were the Others trying on huge flower-hats before the glass, and saying there was only one puffect gentleman in That Country, and he was the Commander-in-Chief.
So Baby said very gently,
"My dears, don't you think you'd be happier back in Abroad, where you belong?"
Then the Others turned up their noses, and drooped down their mouths, and said,
"Thank-ye for nothin—We was just hon the go."
And they swept out arm-in-arm, and flounced back to Abroad, where they belonged; and a good job too.
But Phyllis stayed with Baby for ever and ever.
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