32/33 At last, when she was going, she took me into my room and put them in my dress. "They were left behind by somebody." "Left behind ?" "At poor Miss Flite's," said Caddy. "Somebody who has been very good to her was hurrying away an hour ago to join a ship and left these flowers behind. Let the pretty little things lie here," said Caddy, adjusting them with a careful hand, "because I was present myself, and I shouldn't wonder if somebody left them on purpose!" "Do they look like that sort of thing ?" said Ada, coming laughingly behind me and clasping me merrily round the waist. |