Two curators were told off to explain the museum to visitors, and tea-stewards selected to help to hand round cups and cakes.

A band of special scouts picked raspberries and arranged them on little green plates.

Chairs were placed in the summer-house and under the trees in view of the lawn.

The rustic seats were carefully dusted in the glade by the stream.
By three o'clock the school was in a flutter of expectation.
"Do I look--decent ?" asked Rona anxiously, taking a last nervous peep at her toilet in the wardrobe mirror.
"Decent!" exclaimed Ulyth.

"You're for all the world like a Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait.