And the children were struck dumb
with joy and pleasure.
'Get away NOW,' said the Phoenix softly, breaking in on the radiant
dream.
So the children crept away, and out through the little shrine, and
the lady and the priest were so tearfully, talkatively happy that
they never noticed that the guardian angels had gone.
The 'garden angels' ran down the hill to the lady's little house,
where they had left the carpet on the veranda, and they spread it
out and said 'Home,' and no one saw them disappear, except little
Henri, who had flattened his nose into a white button against the
window-glass, and when he tried to tell his aunt she thought he had
been dreaming. So that was all right.
'It is much the best thing we've done,' said Anthea, when they
talked it over at tea-time. 'In the future we'll only do kind
actions with the carpet.'
'Ahem!' said the Phoenix.
'I beg your pardon?' said Anthea.
'Oh, nothing,' said the bird. 'I was only thinking!'
CHAPTER 7
MEWS FROM PERSIA
When you hear that the four children found themselves at Waterloo
Station quite un-taken-care-of, and with no one to meet them, it
may make you think that their parents were neither kind nor
careful. But if you think this you will be wrong. The fact is,
mother arranged with Aunt Emma that she was to meet the children at
Waterloo, when they went back from their Christmas holiday at
Lyndhurst.
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