I'll tell you what! Suppose I bring Sarah down here!" "Well, but won't she cry and be miserable here, if you read, and with no Isaac to play with ?" "Oh no," said Esther confidently.

"She'll keep Bobby company." Bobby took kindly to little Sarah also.

He knew no other dogs and in such circumstances a sensible animal falls back on human beings.

He had first met Debby herself quite casually and the two lonely beings took to each other.

Before that meeting Dutch Debby was subject to wild temptations.