It is so pretty an
idea; we have seen it done once in Styria.''
Lady Barbara looked dubiously at the proposed Easter
angel, a fair, wooden-faced child of about four years old.
She had noticed it the day before in the hotel, and wondered
rather how such a tow-headed child could belong to such a
dark-visaged couple as the woman and her husband; probably,
she thought, an adopted baby, especially as the couple were
not young.
``Of course Gn
dige Frau will escort the little child
up to the Prince,'' pursued the woman; ``but he will be
quite good, and do as he is told.''
``We haf some pluffers' eggs shall come fresh from Wien,''
said the husband.
The small child and Lady Barbara seemed equally
unenthusiastic about the pretty idea; Lester was openly
discouraging, but when the Burgomaster heard of it he was
enchanted. The combination of sentiment and plovers' eggs
appealed strongly to his Teutonic mind.
On the eventful day the Easter angel, really quite
prettily and quaintly dressed, was a centre of kindly
interest to the gala crowd marshalled to receive his
Highness. The mother was unobtrusive and less fussy than
most parents would have been under the circumstances, merely
stipulating that she should place the Easter egg herself in
the arms that had been carefully schooled how to hold the
precious burden.
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