[What Timmy Did by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Timmy Did CHAPTER X 9/10
Yes, Jack had hardly changed at all, but Radmore, looking at Jack, felt a sudden intolerable jealousy for George.... He came back with a start to what was going on around him, and idly he wondered what had happened to all the servants this evening.
Truth to tell he had been just a little surprised and taken aback at not finding his bag unpacked and his evening clothes laid out before dinner. Timmy had slipped out of his chair and brought him a plateful of roast mutton, and now Rosamund was playing waitress, smiling at his elbow, a lovely Hebe indeed, with dishes of potatoes and greens.
He helped himself a little awkwardly, while Timmy was taking round platefuls of meat to his father, to Jack, and finally one to his own little self. Then Betty went out of the room, and came back with a large dish of macaroni cheese, which she put on a side table.
Jack got up and whispered something to her rather angrily.
He was evidently remonstrating with her for not having allowed him to go and get the dish, for he motioned her rather imperiously back to her seat by her father, while he himself, calling to Dolly to help him, dealt out generous portions of macaroni cheese to those who had not taken meat. All at once Timmy exclaimed in his shrill voice:--"I like macaroni cheese.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|