'
'I hope it'll keep them away,' said Jane; 'she isn't ugly at all
when she laughs.'
The carpet has done many wonders in its day; but the case of Mrs
Biddle is, I think, the most wonderful. For from that day she was
never anything like so disagreeable as she was before, and she sent
a lovely silver tea-pot and a kind letter to Miss Peasmarsh when
the pretty lady married the nice curate; just after Easter it was,
and they went to Italy for their honeymoon.
CHAPTER 5
THE TEMPLE
'I wish we could find the Phoenix,' said Jane. 'It's much better
company than the carpet.'
'Beastly ungrateful, little kids are,' said Cyril.
'No, I'm not; only the carpet never says anything, and it's so
helpless. It doesn't seem able to take care of itself. It gets
sold, and taken into the sea, and things like that. You wouldn't
catch the Phoenix getting sold.'
It was two days after the bazaar. Every one was a little
cross--some days are like that, usually Mondays, by the way. And
this was a Monday.
'I shouldn't wonder if your precious Phoenix had gone off for
good,' said Cyril; 'and I don't know that I blame it. Look at the
weather!'
'It's not worth looking at,' said Robert. And indeed it wasn't.
'The Phoenix hasn't gone--I'm sure it hasn't,' said Anthea.
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