Now I must go." The Miss Watsons outstayed the other guests, and Pamela, remembering Jean's advice, produced a few stray photographs of relations which were regarded with much interest and some awe.

The photograph of her brother, Lord Bidborough, they could hardly lay down.

Finally, Pamela presented them with flowers and a basket of apples newly arrived from Bidborough Manor, and they returned to Balmoral walking on air.
"Such _pleasant_ company and _such_ a tea," said Miss Watson.

"She had out all her best things." "And Mrs.Jowett and Miss Dawson were asked to meet _us_," exulted Miss Teenie.
"And very affable they were," added her sister.

But when the sisters had removed their best clothes and were seated in the dining-room with the cloth laid for supper, Miss Teenie said, "All the same, it's fine to be back in our own house and not to have to heed about manners." She pulled a low chair close to the fire as she spoke and spread her skirt back over her knee and, thoroughly comfortable and at peace with the world, beamed on her sister, who replied: "What do you say to having some toasted cheese to our supper ?".