“I don’t think you must worry Mr Solace any more, Dennis,” she said. “He knows best how to manage his own affairs and his own men. A little boy like you can’t understand such things. If the wheelwright behaves badly, of course he must lose his place.”
“But,” persisted Dennis, “Mr Solace really does want to keep him, I know, only he says it isn’t fair to the other men.”
“Well, you’d better get them to sign a Round Robin, then,” said Miss Chester, laughing; “I can’t interfere.”
She was hurrying away, as though there were no more to be said on the subject, but Dennis followed her.
“Oh Aunt Katharine,” he said earnestly, taking hold of her dress, “do wait a minute, and tell me what you mean by a Round Robin.”
Aunt Katharine was always willing to make things clear to the children if she could, and she now sat down patiently to explain to Dennis what a Round Robin was. When he quite understood, he ran quickly in search of Maisie that he might describe it to her before he forgot a word, and get her to help him in preparing one.