“Dear little fellow!” returned Mrs. Lewis. “I am so glad I shall see him to-day.”
III
FOURTH OF JULY
All this while wee Lucy was growing impatient.
“I fink Jimmy might come back,” said she.
For she had a small tricycle, and he was teaching her to ride.
“When will he come, Vendla?”
Vendla did not know. She thought he might come by ten o’clock.
“Well, what’s now o’clock?”