"Never mind!" Cuffy cried. "I can go any night—that is, until I den up for the winter."
And every one in the company declared that he hadn't a single engagement that would prevent him from visiting the garden whenever Nimble's mother should say the word.
"Well," said she, "it won't be to-night, anyhow." And with that she turned around and began to walk along the runway again, away from the pasture fence.
As Nimble followed her Jimmy Rabbit skipped alongside him and whispered in his ear.
"Don't fail to let me know when the time comes!"
But Nimble said never a word. Somehow he suspected that he had made a great mistake.
He knew he had, a little later.