When I said
that Felix was out, and Nannie away in the Adirondacks with papa, she
looked _so_ disappointed. 'I knew your father was there,' she said, 'but
he did not mention that Nancy was with him. And so Felix is out! H'm,
sorry for that. Good children, good children, both of them!'"
"Doesn't know you, old man, does she?" put in Phil; and then he and
Felix grinned.
"Well," continued Nora, "she said she couldn't stay for lunch, but I
got her to loosen her bonnet strings and take a cup of tea and some
crackers. While she sipped her tea she said: 'I am _en route_ for my
usual summer resort, and have come a good deal out of my way to see my
godchildren. It is a disappointment not to meet them; but if Nancy is
with her sick father, she is doing her duty.' Then she asked about you,
Fee; your health particularly. After I had told her that you were as
well as usual, and as fond of study as ever, then she told me what she
had come on from Boston for. Felix, she knows all about your
disappointment in not going to college last fall,--who do you suppose
could have told her?--and she says--" Nora stopped and looked at us
with a teasing smile.
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