Mrs. Busson had indeed spared no pains to make the banquet worthy of the occasion.
But when, after Gaston had finished helping Ruth to arrange the table with such deftness that Ruth declared he was a regular little French cook, he meekly followed her back to the house without attempting to stay beside the tempting board, there was a violent reaction in Gaston’s favour amongst all the intending merry-makers.
To the infants’ exceeding joy they were bidden to pursue the outcast and to bring him back to the feast.
And so, with no very clear comprehension of his obligations, Gaston joined in the banquet, and was duly enrolled as the youngest knight in the Order of Good Intentions.
“We must make him a knight,” Di had wisely whispered to Jack, “for if he were only a valet like Hubert, Andrew would bully him so.”
