Why, I could go on talking till morning." He got
up and limped restlessly about, then stopped near me. "What'll we do
to-morrow evening?" he said, "and the next, and the next?--there are
_ten_ more, you know. We'll _have_ to think of something, that's all;
it'll not be easy, but we'll have to do it. I'm afraid"--Fee spoke
slowly, shaking his head--"I'm afraid the _pater_ _has_ made a mistake,
a big mistake. Now if Nannie were only here--what an owl you look,
Rosebud! Come, off to bed with you!" He threw his arm across my shoulder
and gave me a little squeeze, then pushed me out of the room and shut
the door.
I have an idea that he didn't sleep very well that night, for the next
morning _he_, too, looked like a owl, in the way of eyes.
XVI.
AND A MAJOR.
TOLD BY JACK.
The next day Phil was more like himself,--almost as usual, at least
during the first part of the day; after that, everybody got into such
a state of excitement that we forgot all about his mood,--I guess he
forgot it himself.
As I've told you, Kathie and the little ones weren't behaving at all
nicely. You see the trouble was they wanted their own way, and Nora
wanted hers, and nurse wanted hers too; and some days things went all
wrong in the nursery.
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