"If her uncle likes her to come, she can; but remember, I don't trust her, and if she gets up to any pranks, home I'll send her as soon as look at her!"
The little girls departed to their lessons, delighted with this permission. Dreamikins was enchanted to come, and very anxious and excited to see the fresh arrival.
"I like boys," she said. "I knew Harry and Frank at Brighton; they used to play with me, and I fished, oh, lots of times with them!"
She arrived at three o'clock that afternoon, and found all the children on the lawn. They were assisting Trimmer and the under-gardener to sweep up the leaves.
"We're going to have a bonfire just in the beginning of the park," said Freda excitedly.
Dreamikins' eyes gleamed with delight. Then she was introduced to Edmund. They looked at each other for a moment in silence, then Dreamikins said:
"I shall call you R.R."
"What's that?" he demanded.
"Fibo has a story of a R.R., and he drew him on paper just like you. He rode, and he roved, and he was a robber, and the lines about him were:
"'The round rogue rode a red reptile,
And ruined rainbows, rats, and rooks.'"