And gave him back the fair--'


and I was sure Aunt Barbara would catch me like Eurydice, if I only
looked back."

"What a funny girl you are, to be thinking about Orpheus and
Eurydice!" said Adelaide. "Aren't you glad?"

"Glad? Ain't I just! as Charlie would say. Oh dear! your papa is a
delicious man; I'd rather have him for mine than anybody, except
Uncle Wardour!"

"I'd rather have him than anyone," said the little daughter.
"Because he is yours," said Kate; "but somehow, though he is more
funny and good-natured than Uncle Wardour, I wouldn't--no, I
shouldn't like him so well for a papa. I don't think he would punish
so well."

"Punish!" cried Adelaide. "Is that what you want? Why, Mamma says
children ought to be always pleasure and no trouble to busy fathers.
But there, Kate; you are not getting ready--and we are to be at the
station at ten."

"I am waiting for Josephine! Why doesn't she come?" said Kate,
ringing violently again.

"Why don't you get ready without her?"

"I don't know where anything is! It is very tiresome of her, when