Her face shone with pleasure as she peeped through.
Jane knelt down, and peeped through too. Beyond the fence she could see into another yard.
In this yard there was grass growing, and flower-beds, where the flowers were beginning to grow up in green shoots.
But this was not all. Not far from the fence, by a corner of the garden, stood a low bush. She could smell its sweet fragrance from where she knelt.
“Do you see it?” whispered Clematis.
“Of course I see it. I can smell it too. It’s great.”
Jane took in a long breath of the fragrance, and smiled at Clematis.
“Oh, I wish I had some of those blossoms.” Clematis looked eagerly at the blossoms. “Do you know what they are, Jane?”
“Oh, yes; those are lilacs.”
The two girls had just time to take one more deep breath, full of the fragrance from the lilac blossoms, before the bell rang.