"What will you do with it?" said the children, standing round.
"Do you think you could ask Mary to spare us a jug, Susan? If I
might put it in water in the schoolroom fireplace, it would look
fresh and cheerful for Sunday."
"Oh, yes," said Susan, pleased with the commission, "that I will;"
and away she ran, while Miss Fosbrook examined the spike to her own
great enjoyment. "I see," she said, "the flowers are not really
white, they each have a patch of pink or yellow on them, which gives
them their softness. Yes; and do you see, Bessie, they are in
clusters of three, and each three has one flower with a pink spot,
and two with a yellow one."
"That is very curious," said Bessie: the fretfulness was very much
gone out of her tone, and she stood looking at the beautiful flower,
without a word, till Susan came back, when she began to show her what
Miss Fosbrook had pointed out. Susan smiled with her really good
nature, and said, "How funny!" but was more intent on telling Miss
Fosbrook that she had brought the jug, and then on hauling Elizabeth
away to a game at Tom Tittler's ground.
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