“Ye-es, he’s goin’ to run away soon,” went on Doris.
“An’ he’ll die!” shrieked Baby.
Then Willie’s mother talked quietly to them. “Well, well, we’ll see about it. Perhaps I’ll let him go with you, after all.”
And then, because Willie’s Mamma had a sense of humor and guessed that her small son was waiting to hear the news, she kept the little girls for quite a time, and gave them lollies and dates, and they quite forgot about Willie waiting to hear the answer.
Willie met them with a very angry face when they trudged up their own steps ever so long after.
“It’s a wonder you ever came back,” he said, sarcastically. “Did you forget I was waiting? What did she say? Quick!”
“She said, she said——”
“Go on! what did she say?”
“She said p’raps, an’ she’d see. An’ I think she means to let you come.”
“Is that all she said, all the time you were in there? ‘P’raps, and she’d see!’ A lot of sense there is in that! Didn’t she say anything else, Baby?”