We were not kept uncertain very long. We heard a whoop, followed by the appearance of the two boys, who told us that Taisy and Esmé were coming directly.
'We've all been in the wood,' said Geordie.
'I wish you had been here,' I said. 'There's been a gypsy at the back door,' and I went on to tell him of our strange visitor and what she had said.
Geordie whistled.
'I should have liked to talk to her,' he remarked. 'Did she say how she got into the grounds?'
I shook my head.
'No,' I replied. 'She was very mysterious about it, but she went away in the direction of the shore, so she prob——'
I was interrupted by another whoop, and in a moment or two up came Taisy and Esmé, looking very hot and untidy, but very eager to hear all details of our rather uncanny visitor, as soon as the word 'gypsy' had caught their ears.
And we talked so much about her that at last mamma said we had really better change the subject, or she would begin to wish she had not agreed to see the woman.