“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?”