‘Why not ask your Polly Perkins?’ suggested Papa. ‘She sat beside your bed, did she not? and so must have seen all that went on during the night.’
This was quite true, and Anne Marie ran for Polly Perkins.
Maman was delighted with Polly and her cape. She listened with interest to Anne Marie’s account of Grandmother King’s Party.
But she only laughed again and again when Anne Marie said solemnly to her dolly,
‘Polly Perkins, did I see the Christmas Angel last night?’
Of course Polly didn’t answer out loud, but, as Anne Marie said, she looked as if she meant to say ‘yes.’
So then Anne Marie made up her mind.
‘I did see the Christmas Angel,’ said Anne Marie.
And smiling at Anne Marie and Maman, Papa Durant nodded,
‘Yes, Anne Marie, I, too, think that you did.’