For want of something better to do, they got their books out and commenced to paste pictures in them, talking all the time. Nurse presently put down her work and left the room. Soon Freda ran to the window.
"Come quick, Daffy! I thought I heard something. There's a motor coming up the avenue. Who can it be?"
Daffy darted to the window.
"I expect it's visitors who don't know Mummy is away."
They cautiously opened the window and hung their heads out.
"Why, it's Aunt Frances," cried Freda.
Aunt Frances was their mother's sister, and lived in the north of England. They did not often see her; only when she came up to town.
"She doesn't know Mummy is away! Oh, I do hope she'll stay the night!"
Daffy danced round the room in excitement; Bertie at once joined in. Then the dance turned into a chase round the table, in which Freda joined; and then, when they were all screaming at the top of their voices, the nursery door opened, and their aunt appeared, followed by a chubby-cheeked boy in knickerbockers, and Nurse brought up the rear.
"You seem very cheerful up here," their aunt said.