‘We will go back now, for it is time for my little girls to go to bed.’
Then they all returned down the zig-zag path, and were soon home again, and Alice and Beatrice went to bed, after telling Mary first of all that they had seen.
CHAPTER III.
A RAINY DAY—STORY OF PRETTY AND THE BEAR.
‘WHAT a rainy day!’ said Alice, one morning, when Mary came to call them, and to help them to dress. ‘We cannot go out at all to-day.’
‘What a pity!’ said her little sister. ‘I am so sorry.’
‘What shall we do all day, if we cannot go out?’ said Alice.
‘The rain will make all your flowers grow, miss,’ said Mary, ‘and make the weather a little cooler.’