"No, Granny is too poor, and since the war she says it's wicked to buy sweets; for they take the sugar."
He laughed again.
"You must come up and see my wife. She loves small girls. We've only two boys; and school takes them from us most of the year."
Charity's eyes sparkled.
"We came out to meet adventures," she said confidentially; "and you're the second one we've met. Faith has gone off with the first one."
Sir George was then told about the dog, and the old man.
"Mrs. Cox said we would see nobody at all in the country," said Hope; "but we knew she was wrong, for all the books say you meet people in a wood, and we have."
"So you're fond of books."
"Oh," cried Charity, "we love them! I wish we could buy hundreds of books, and have them in book cases up to the top of the ceiling. When I grow up, I shall keep a book shop, and I shall read them all, every one of them."
"Capital! I'm a book lover myself, and you shall come up one day soon, and spend an afternoon with me and my books."