'
'What a tear he did make in my frock!' said Harriet, laughing;
'didn't he, Lucy?'
'How tired you look, Lucy,' said Helen, 'I am sure you ought to be in
bed.'
'Oh no, I am not very sleepy,' said Lucy, smiling.
'I am dead tired, I am sure,' said Harriet, yawning; 'it was so hot
in the railway carriage.'
'Cannot the rest of those things be put away to-morrow morning,
Harriet?' said Helen.
'Oh!' said Harriet, yawning, 'there will not be time; Lucy may as
well do them all now she has begun. How sleepy I am! we walked about
London all the morning.'
'Come, Helen,' said Katherine, 'it is quite time for us to be gone;
we must be up early to-morrow.'
CHAPTER V.
The morning of the twenty-eighth of August was as fine as heart could
wish, and the three sisters rose almost as soon as it was light, to
fulfil their promise of attending to all the small nondescript
matters of arrangement, needful when a large party is expected by a
family not much in the habit of receiving company. Katherine, who
had quite given up all thoughts of equalling her elder sister in
talent, and who prided herself on being the useful member of the
family, made herself very busy in the store-room; Helen, arranged the
fruit with much taste; and Elizabeth was up-stairs and down, here,
there, and everywhere, till it was difficult to find anything which
she had not rectified by labour of head or hand.
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