Indeed, the forgetfulness has quite become chronic.

Now I'll find Olly, and we'll all go at the dishes together and make a game of it." Certainly Denham Halloway must have possessed some secret charm in his management of children, for by the time Gerald turned her boat to the shore, he stood at the bank to meet them, with Olly by his side, as amiable a little fellow as any Sunday-school-book hero ever born.
"I am glad your sail turned out such a success, Miss Delano," said Halloway, cheerily, as he lifted the little old lady carefully out on to the pebbles.

"You have been envied of us all.

But here is a little boy come to tell you all the same how sorry he is that he gave you such a fright.

Olly, my lad, I think Miss Delano looks as if she had forgiven you through and through." "Oh, indeed, indeed yes," answered Miss Delano, hurriedly.