"You ask God every day, Susy, till He does it."
Susy nodded gravely, and then, as children will, they suddenly changed the conversation and began to talk about dolls. The time slipped away too fast.
But when Christina came back to her governess, she said:
"I'm going to see Susy every day till she goes, Miss Loder, for she's going to wait at our lodge gate to see me when we go out for our walk."
"And if we don't go out?" said Miss Loder with a smile.
"Oh, but we will; for mother likes me to go when it's raining!"
Sure enough Susy waited every day to catch a glimpse of Christina and exchange a few words with her, but with the advent of Puggy, Christina found it rather difficult to see so much of her little friend.
Miss Loder went home for the Christmas holidays, and Christina was left very much to herself.
Puggy came home in boisterous spirits. He missed Dawn, and persisted in dragging Christina after him wherever he went. He was in the turret room the first thing, and took Christina to task for its neglected, dusty appearance.
"I haven't come up here since Dawn went," she confessed; "it's so lonely!"