The maid came back just as the other carriage stopped. A man and two girls got out and came up the steps. Sally clutched each of the twins by an arm and pulled them in to a sheltering window recess.
“Now don’t scream when you see what’s coming,” she whispered.
The maid was taking the bags. They could hear the man’s voice asking for Miss Hull. The twins looked out from their hiding place.
Two girls stood in the doorway; the old lantern that swung from the porch illuminated their faces. They had red hair and they were dressed exactly alike.
“Twins!” Janet exclaimed in a muffled voice, and Phyllis looked bewildered.
“Twins!” Janet exclaimed in a muffled voice
“Isn’t it a lark?” Sally demanded. “The minute the old wing gets a pair of twins the new one has to follow suit.”
They heard Daphne’s voice and saw her with her mother and Miss Hull coming down the hall. They went forward to meet them as the new twins and their father followed the maid in the same direction, and under the center light exactly in the middle of the hall they all met.
All four twins looked at each other. Janet and Phyllis saw that their rivals were easily distinguishable one from the other. For although their faces were exactly alike, one was considerably stouter than the other.