booby-trap for Mrs Pettigrew when she had locked H. O. up in the
dairy, and unfortunately it was the day she was going out in her
best things, and part of the trap was a can of water. Oswald was
not willingly vicious; it was but a light and thoughtless act which
he had every reason to be sorry for afterwards. And he is sorry
even without those reasons, because he knows it is ungentlemanly to
play tricks on women.

I remember Mother telling Dora and me when we were little that you
ought to be very kind and polite to servants, because they have to
work very hard, and do not have so many good times as we do. I
used to think about Mother more at the Moat House than I did at
Blackheath, especially in the garden. She was very fond of
flowers, and she used to tell us about the big garden where she
used to live; and I remember Dora and I helped her to plant seeds.
But it is no use wishing. She would have liked that garden,
though.

The girls and the white mice did not do anything boldly
wicked--though of course they used to borrow Mrs Pettigrew's
needles, which made her very nasty. Needles that are borrowed
might just as well be stolen. But I say no more.

I have only told you these things to show the kind of events which
occurred on the days I don't tell you about. On the whole, we had
an excellent time.

It was on the day we had the pillow-fight that we went for the long
walk. Not the Pilgrimage--that is another story. We did not mean
to have a pillow-fight. It is not usual to have them after