"Then will you have us instead of her, and let us come in and out whenever we like?"
"Whenever you like," Fibo said at once.
"I'm afraid we shall have to be going," Freda said uneasily. "It will be tea-time. It always is tea-time when we want to enjoy ourselves."
"Run along, and get Nurse in a good temper, and then tell her where you've been. Everything must be above-board!"
The children said good-bye. Daffy danced backwards down the path, kissing her hand to him, then he called out:
"Pick a flower to take away with you, and give it to Nurse from me."
Freda stooped over a pink rose-bush.
"I'll pick the very biggest, and we'll make Nurse keep it on the table where we can smell it."
Daffy flitted from bed to bed, unable to make a selection. At last she picked a white Madonna lily.
Then they called out their thanks, and crept through the little green door. When they were once outside, they ran as fast as they could back to the house, and as they ran, Freda said: