5/20 Now we'll have a tidy up in here. Sir Francis likes plenty of bright flowers." I should have liked to stop looking about as soon as we were in the large glass building, which was one mass of bloom; but following Mr Solomon's example I was soon busily snipping off dead flowers and leaves, so as to make the various plants tidy; and I was extremely busy in one corner over this when I suddenly found that Mr Solomon was watching me, and that a big bell was ringing somewhere. You don't know much yet, but you will. If I was to set one of those men to do that he'd have knocked off half the buds, and-- what have you been doing there ?" "I tied up those two flower-stems," I said. |