"How do you know he has?"
"Oh, you're different, not quite so harum-scarum, and I saw you sloping off to church one day and I guessed, because he talks to me sometimes, and I always feel as if he's pretty near heaven."
"'Cherub' is a very good name for him," said Inez.
And Ted agreed with her.
[CHAPTER XV]
To the Borderland and Back
Christmas morning at Wistaria Cottage was a very merry one.
Long before light the children were examining their Christmas stockings, which were bulging with all kinds of presents from every one. Of course Noel's was the biggest; and there beside his bed was a bicycle, just like Chris's, only smaller. He was in transports of delight, and tried to get on it and go up and down the passage, but Nurse quickly put a stop to that. They all trooped down to their mother's room in their dressing-gowns and presented her with a beautiful picture representing the Manger at Bethlehem.
"It's from all three of us," said Chris. "We thought you'd like to hang it up over your bed."
And Mrs. Inglefield said she would love to do that, and that they could not have given her anything which she would have liked better.