"And we can pick flowers wherever we see them," said Faith, "without paying for them or having the keepers coming up to see what we're doing."
"Where is the wood?" asked Hope.
Charity began to climb one of the apple trees.
"I think I see some trees over there," she said, pointing to the corner of a field a short distance off. They were going to set off immediately in search of it, when they heard their aunt call them in.
"You mustn't run away," she said; "we're all going to have some tea, and then you must help me get your beds made up. There will be lots to do before we go to bed to-night."
"Is this our furniture?" asked Charity, looking round the room, which had only an empty glass-paned cupboard, a square table, a dresser, and six wooden chairs.
"Yes, we've taken over the furniture left here, but we'll make this kitchen quite pretty with nice curtains, and some cushions and some of Granny's pretty things."
So they gathered round the table for their evening meal, and then till bed-time Aunt Alice kept them all busy.
When they at last went up to the sloping-roofed bedroom where they were to sleep, the little girls were too tired to talk any more.
It was Charity who said just before she dropped asleep: