Then she tried to pull herself swiftly together and to look—as Miss Bibby should look.
“If you have finished, children, you may go,” she said. “Yes, Anna, you may clear the table.”
She hurried away out of the room.
“It’s my belief she’s in love with ’im, and p’raps they’ve ’ad a quarrel,” said Anna, who was aching in this quiet country place for a spice of adventure. Miss Bibby had [p42] not noticed that the girl had come into the room at Max’s request with “more lawberry leserve.”
The little girls looked at each other with sparkling eyes. They loved a mystery as much as Anna did.
“Oh,” said Pauline, “won’t it be lovely? Let’s go and watch at the gate.”
They flew off to stare at “Tenby”—“Tenby” with the local charwoman already there, throwing up the windows and sweeping away the dust of the winter.
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