“Call her! Oh, call her what you like!”
Susan saw his mistake at once.
“Oh, I don’t mean the doll!” she said in a great hurry. “I mean Aunt—Aunt—Emptycap.”
Freddie’s attention was caught at last. He put the book down on his knees.
“Aunt who?” he said with real interest in his voice.
Susan knew he was going to laugh at her, and this she never liked.
“You know who I mean,” she said, “it’s not quite the name, but it sounds like that. I want to know if I ought to call her ‘Aunt.’”
Freddie’s eyes twinkled, though his face was quite grave:
“I should just take care of one thing if I were you,” he said; “and that is, not to say her name wrong.”
“Why?” asked Susan.