"Is there no one in London to look after her?" she asked piteously.
"Come, we must have no tears," said old Mr. Bolland, taking Christina on his knee. "I am an idle old man with nothing to do, so I will look her up, and see if I can find some friends for her; and I'll do it for the sake of a little maid who came here to cheer up a lonely old couple."
Smiles took the place of tears.
"I know you'll like Susy, everybody does, and Miss Bertha said she'd always be her friend; so if Susy wants a home, she must come back to our village, but I know she won't leave her father."
Conversation was interrupted here, by the arrival of Blanche to take Christina home.
She bade her friends good-bye with rather a troubled face, but the doctor assured her that he would see Susy if he could that evening, and take her her message, and Christina walked home as if in a dream.
The boys were waiting in the hall to tell her their experiences at the Zoo.
"Master Dawn got caught out," said Puggy triumphantly. "He had taken a pistol which he was going to fire off in the elephant's ear when we rode upon him, but Ena took it away from him before we got to the Zoo. Ena is awfully sharp sometimes."
"But that would have frightened the poor elephant dreadfully," said Christina, looking at Dawn with reproach in her eyes.
"It would have made him trot out," said Dawn, unabashed. "I wanted to have a good gallop on him. But we did have fun with the monkeys, didn't we?"