"How could Marjorie do such a thing!" she exclaimed.
"Oh, don't be too hard on her, Mrs. Maynard," said Mrs. Curtis. "It's all right, now, and you know Marjorie and Gladys are a mischievous pair."
"But this is inexcusable," went on Mrs. Maynard. "Mrs. Harrison nearly went frantic, and you were certainly greatly alarmed."
Mrs. Curtis smiled pleasantly. "I was," she admitted, "but it was only for a few moments. I was mystified rather than alarmed, for Lisa said the carriage had not been out of her sight a moment, except when the girls had it."
Mrs. Curtis took her leave, and, carrying with her her own baby, went away home.
Mrs. Maynard made sincere apologies to her friend for naughty Marjorie's mischief.
"Never mind, Helen," said Mrs. Harrison. "I can see now it was only a childish prank, and doubtless Marjorie and Gladys expected a good laugh over it; then they ran off unexpectedly and forgot all about the babies."
Mrs. Maynard remembered then that Midget had said at the last moment that she had something to tell her, but that she had hurried the child off.
"Still," she thought to herself, "that was no excuse for Midge. She should have told me."
After a refreshing luncheon, Mrs. Harrison was able to view the matter more calmly.