WET DAYS AT RAVENSNEST For about a week after the row on the lake the weather was lovely, and Milly wondered more than ever what the old gentleman who warned them of the rain in the mountains could have been thinking about.

She and Olly were out all day, and nearly every afternoon nurse lifted the tea-table through the low nursery window on to the lawn, and let them have their tea out of doors among the flowers and trees and twittering birds.

They had found out a fly-catcher's nest in the ivy above the front door, and every evening the two children used to fetch out their father to watch the parent birds catching flies and carrying them to the hungry little ones, whom they could just hear chirping up above the ivy.

Olly was wild to get the gardener's ladder that he might climb up and look into the nest, but Mr.Norton would not have it lest it should frighten away the old birds.
One delicious warm morning, too, the children had their long-promised bathe, and what fun it was.

Nurse woke them up at five o'clock in the morning--fancy waking up as early as that!--and they slipped on their little blue bathing gowns, and their sand shoes that mother had bought them in Cromer the year before, and then nurse wrapped them up in shawls, and she and they and father went down and opened the front door while everybody else in the house was asleep, and slipped out.