"Will this be enough?" he asked.
"Are there any more ripe?" said Mrs. Elliot.
"Yes; a good many more."
"Oh, then let us have them!" said Maude. "Nobody could have too many strawberries."
"Very well; but some of you will have to give a hand to them after breakfast."
"The children will," said Mrs. Elliot; "there will be plenty of time."
Then they sat down to breakfast.
"I wonder what time Hope and Miss Arundel will come down," said little Mary.
"Hope is sure to be punctual," said Maude, "so at exactly 'ten o' the clock,' we shall hear the wheels."
A picnic to Orston Cliff was one of the "institutions" of Shellford. It was about five miles off, and was to be reached in four different modes—by sea, by donkeys, by any conveyance which Shellford might boast, and by walking.