made the whole thing highly inexpedient, and infra dig."
"Meg!... you didn't!"
"I did, indeed. There was no use mincing matters."
"And what did he say?"
"He said, 'Oh, that's all bindles'—whatever that may mean."
"You mustn't go to the Gardens alone any more. I'll come with you to-morrow, or, better still, we'll all go to Kew if it's fine."
"I should be glad, though I grudge the fares; but you needn't come. I know how busy you are, with Hannah away and so much to see to—and what earthly use am I if I can't look after the children without you?"
"You do look after the children without me for hours and hours on end. I could never trust anyone else as I do you."
"I am getting to manage them," Meg said proudly; "but just to-day I must tell you—it was rather horrid—we came face to face with the Trents in the Baby's Walk. Mrs. Trent and Lotty, the second girl, the big, handsome one—and he evidently knows them...."
"Who evidently knows them?"