She would much
rather have had the fun of "cats and mice" with her brothers; and but
for the honour of the thing, so perhaps would Annie. However, they
were all very happy, getting the dolls up in the morning, giving
Mildred washing enough for all the twenty-three, making them
breakfast, hearing lessons, in which Ida was governess, and made them
talk so many languages that Annie was alarmed. Of course one of the
young ladies was very naughty, and was treated with extreme severity;
then there was dinner, a walk, an illness, and a dinner-party. While
all the time the two real governesses sat in the shade outside, and
talked in English or German as best they might, the Fraulein
understanding Christabel's English the best, as did Christabel the
Fraulein's German. They began to make friends, and to wish to see
more of one another.
There was a walk round the garden, and admiration of the beautiful
flowers, and the fountain and pond of gold-fish, till the boys came
home, and got hold of the garden-engine for watering, crying out,
"Fire! fire!" and squirting out the showers of water very much in the
direction of the girls.
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