5/7 I'm going to tea with her to-morrow afternoon." The reason why there had been space for this tete-a-tete can only be known by looking into the back kitchen, where Totty had been discovered rubbing a stray blue-bag against her nose, and in the same moment allowing some liberal indigo drops to fall on her afternoon pinafore. "Here's Totty! By the by, what's her other name? Charlotte's her christened name. It's a name i' Mr.Poyser's family: his grandmother was named Charlotte. But we began with calling her Lotty, and now it's got to Totty. |