Just as she thought of looking round for her dear Syd, her father produced a new outburst of delight by presenting a perambulator worthy of the doll.

Her uncle followed with a parasol, devoted to the preservation of the doll's complexion when she went out for an airing.

Then there came a pause.

Where was the generous grandmother's gift?
Nobody remembered it; Mrs.Presty herself discovered the inestimable sixpenny picture-book cast away and forgotten on a distant window-seat.

"I have a great mind to keep this," she said to Kitty, "till you are old enough to value it properly." In the moment of her absence at the window, Linley's mother-in-law lost the chance of seeing him whisper to Sydney.