“She’ll be so pleased to see these and surprised, too,” whispered Margaret to Sir Bodkin as he stood on the table.
“Yes, My Lady,” he replied. He made a low bow to his little mistress and slipped into the work-basket. Margaret hurried to her Mother’s room with the finished middy blouse.
“Well, I must say you and the One-Eyed Fairies certainly are very clever indeed,” you could have heard Mrs. Allen remark if you had been standing outside her door just then.
CHAPTER X AUNTIE’S BIRTHDAY PRESENT
“What a lovely rainy day!” cried Margaret coming into her room singing happily to herself. She did not mind the rain at all for she was very anxious to get to work. It would soon be her Auntie’s birthday and Margaret wanted to give her a present. So Mother had bought down-town a linen towel with the ends finished with hemstitching done by machine.
“You can trim it at one end, above the hem, with a design done in cross-stitch,” she had said to Margaret.
“That will be pretty!” Margaret had replied. “I’ll ask Sir Bodkin how to do it.”
Margaret now had the towel and a book of cross-stitch designs in her hands as she came into the room.