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Austin's. Winifred and Edward were watching for her at
the door, in great dread of being forgotten, for they said, 'Papa had
come for Mamma, and fetched her away in a great hurry, and then
Harriet and Lucy set off after them, and Uncle Edward had taken Aunt
Anne long before to look at the church.' Elizabeth was rejoicing in
the prospect of a quiet walk with the children, and was only delaying
in a vain attempt to reduce the long fingers of Winifred's glove to
something more like the length of the short fingers of its owner,
when a sharp voice at the top of the stairs cried out, 'Wait for me!'
and Mrs. Hazleby appeared, looking very splendid in a short black
silk cloak trimmed with scarlet.
'Where have you been all this time?' said she to Elizabeth, while she
caught hold of Winifred's hand, or, more properly speaking, of her
wrist; 'we shall all be too late.'
'I have been at the school,' said Elizabeth.
'What! do you keep school to-day?' asked Mrs. Hazleby.
'No,' said Elizabeth, 'but the children are going to the
Consecration.'
'Poor little things!' exclaimed Mrs.


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