[Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay]@TWC D-Link bookUp the Hill and Over CHAPTER XII 11/40
And the farthest I've got to go is over to Mrs.Nixon's.
The whole thing won't take five minutes." Sun-bonnets are splendid things for hiding the face! Had Bubble seen that slow smile of victory there is no telling what might have happened. But he did not see it.
And Ann was too good a general to exult openly. Her answer was carefully careless.
"I'll wait--if you'll hurry up!" But the look which she threw after his hastily retreating figure was as old as Eve. Meanwhile the doctor and Esther, who had been so criminally careless of professional appearances as to drive down Main Street with a picnic basket protruding, were enjoying themselves with an enjoyment peculiar to careless people.
Esther had forgotten about the pile of uncorrected school exercises which were supposed to form her Saturday's work; the doctor had forgotten about the measles and the twins.
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