"La! Mr. Fairchild," cried Miss Bessy, laughing, "how you do put things! I never thought what I was doing. It must have looked uncommon strange, but I hope I shan't do it again."
"Then you had better go in with me to your aunt, and if she approves, you shall help Lucy and Emily in their little gardens."
"Cutting off faded flowers, and picking up the dead leaves."—[Page 299].
Mrs. Fairchild and Mrs. Goodriche were only waiting for Miss Bessy to follow the little girls into the garden; and there, whilst they worked and chatted together, Lucy and Emily and Miss Goodriche were employed in cutting off faded flowers, and picking up the dead leaves from the ground.
"Off she ran after him."—[Page 295].
