.

And here is our tea-tray at last." Nina came up to join them.

Her brother winced as she smiled triumphantly at him, and the colour continued vivid in his face while she remained in the room.

Then the children charged upstairs, fresh from the Park, clamouring for food; and they fell upon Selwyn's neck, and disarranged his scarf-pin, and begged for buttered toast and crumpets, and got what they demanded before Nina's authority could prevent.
"I saw a rabbit at Silverside!" said Billy, "but do you know, Uncle Philip, that hunting pack of ours is no good! Not one dog paid any attention to the rabbit though Drina and I did our best--didn't we, Drina ?" "You should have seen them," murmured Eileen, leaning close to whisper to Selwyn; "the children had fits when the rabbit came hopping across the road out of the Hither Woods.

But the dogs all ran madly the other way, and I thought Billy would die of mortification." Nina stood up, waving a crumpet which she had just rescued from Winthrop.