Nobody must be missed, and no one must be given the wrong thing.
"It would be dreadful, you know," Emily said to the two when they came into her tent and began to ask questions, "if a big boy should get a small wooden horse, or a little baby should be given a cricket bat and ball.

Then it would be so disappointing if a tiny girl got a work-box and a big one got a doll.

One has to get things in order.

They look forward to this so, and it's heart-breaking to a child to be disappointed, isn't it ?" Walderhurst gazed uninspiringly.
"Who did this for Lady Maria when you were not here ?" he inquired.
"Oh, other people.

But she says it was tiresome." Then with an illumined smile; "She has asked me to Mallowe for the next twenty years for the treats.