Helen laughed.
“Why, I think to-night proves that you’re, together, an association capable of dealing with any small boy,” she said. “One of you has a prize for learning, and the other for cooking, and joint cups for hard-hitting! What more could anyone want? Rex ought to come back to us re-modelled in mind and body.”
“Oh—Helen!” protested the twins.
Helen put an arm about each.
“Don’t spoil him—that’s the only thing I’m afraid of,” she said. “Good-bye, twinses dear: I’m so glad I was at school with you, ’cause you’re a nice old pair!” She dropped a kiss on each face, and was gone.
CHAPTER VI
EMU PLAINS
‟FOR the first time,” said John Weston, “I’m not keen on going in to meet my daughters.”
“Then you ought to be ashamed of yourself,” said his wife briskly.
“Well, I am. And that’s why.”
“I never heard such nonsense,” Mrs. Weston said. “If every one in Australia who had had bad luck on top of a drought were to go about feeling ashamed, a nice place Australia would be! No one could have foreseen all the losses you have had. You certainly have no right to blame yourself.”