"Why, the wind has gone right round to the east to-day."
Once Lily had put her apprehension into words and said, breathless from misery:
"Then Vonnie will get earache!"
"What!
'When the wind is in the east
It's neither good for man nor beast!'"
her father made playful quotation.
But when Lily, frightened and resentful that she was not being taken seriously, repeated angrily: "But she will get earache—she always does, if there's an east wind," her father spoke gravely.
"Come, come, my pet. I don't like to hear you say things like that. That's not being a very good little girl, you know. It's only gloomy, ungrateful little people who run to meet trouble halfway. Little Vonnie doesn't mean to get earache. Do you, Vonnie?"
"Yes, Father—I mean no," said Vonnie vaguely.