"Why sister darling, how pale you look!--are you tired?"

"A little," said Primrose--"I had no dinner--I should like a cup of
tea."

Jasmine flew out of the room to get it for her, and Daisy nestled up
to her elder sister's side.

"Primrose," she whispered, "Jasmine and I read that letter in the
garden together. Oh! we were so surprised to know we had a little baby
brother long ago. We went to Hannah and asked her about him, and
Hannah cried--I never saw Hannah cry so long and so hard. She said he
was the sweetest baby. Oh, how I wish we had him now!--he would be
much, much nicer than my new doll."

"But if he were with us now he would be a man, Eyebright--a big, brave
man, able to help us poor girls."

Daisy considered--

"I can only think of him as a baby," she said. "Hannah said he was
lost in London. How I wish we could go to London and find our
brother!"




CHAPTER XIII.