'Oh, daddy, they are telling frightful lies; I did hear Sam say that it
was rotten, and Ross told me not to go.'
So father said, 'Sorry, old chaps,' to Ross and Sam, and they said, 'It
was quite all right, sir.' So father said, 'Well, run her home, boys,
so that she doesn't catch cold,' and mother called after us, 'Give her
some hot milk.'
So Ross and Sam ran me home and said I was a jolly decent kid, which was
drivel. And after Nannie had got me dry, I went and waited in father's
dressing-room. As he and mother came upstairs I heard daddy say,--
'Well, I suppose I must get into a dog collar as I've got this beastly
clerical meeting.'