"Maybe we're both wrong," answered Gerald; and so it turned out.
Indeed so far away from the truth were the guesses of both that, when the new governess came down to tea, the twins could only stare.
And Mr. Ellis, who had joined them at tea in honour of the new arrival, said sharply, "Well, children, where are your manners? Have you no welcome for Miss Burnard?"
"It is natural they should feel a little shy of a stranger just at first," said she pleasantly, with a bright smile; "but I hope we may be very good friends soon. Do you know, my dears, I have always wished to have twins to teach; I think twins are so very interesting."
"We're not," rejoined Dina; "ask dad!"
"No, thank you," laughed Miss Burnard, "I am not going to ask anyone. I mean to judge for myself. But I love children so dearly that to me they are always interesting."
After tea the twins went out again, while the governess unpacked her boxes, and settled comfortably into her own room.
"I say, Dina," said Gerald, "she's not a bit like your guess of the grenadier party with the comb."
"Nor the poodley, doll-de-doll-doll that you guessed," retorted Dina.
"She's not at all young," said Gerald, "and she's not pretty, and yet—"