“Mildred! Mildred! You promised not to go near the water’s edge!”
“I never went near it but jes’ ran out on the little wooden street. I wasn’t goin’ to be naughty. I knowed I might get my feet wet down by the edge so I walked on the planks. I never done nothin’ nor nothin’! ’Twas the bad little blue boat what wobbled.”
Nance and Andy both laughed at the amusing child. The laugh made matters easier for them.
Brown eyes looked into blue and then such a blush o’erspread their countenances that a day’s fishing under a summer sun could not have accomplished.
“You had better put her in the carriage—it is warm there and I can carry Dodo.”
“No, I will keep her wrapped in my coat. That will be better.”
“But you—you might be cold.”
“Not at all! I never catch cold,” shortly.
Nance remembered otherwise, but there was nothing to do but turn and wheel the baby back to the house on the campus.
“I—you must think—I know I was careless to let such an accident happen to my charges. I have no excuse—I was just thinking!”