"Oh," said Iris distractedly, "I don't think we've got one anywhere."
"Better abandon the project, then," Mark observed mildly. "I'll go up after her."
"The tree will break," wailed Iris.
"Not it! Wish it would, and give the kid a lesson. Sorry to treat you to such a series of domestic calamities, Lady Rossiter."
"No, no," said Edna, smiling. "You know I take things as I find them."
They waited to see the rescue effected, and left Mr. Garrett serenely observing, "You should remember to look up, and not down, when you climb, lassie."
"What a household!" said Julian.
"One wonders what those unfortunate, motherless children will grow up into," his wife responded thoughtfully.
"It doesn't seem to me that there's much room for wonder."
"When this wedding is over I shall talk to Mark again about sending Ruthie to school. It would really be a great mercy if the boy could go too."