"Then I shall soon be sent
back in disgrace."
"Cheer up!" said Bunny. "We don't convict on a first offence as a rule in
this country."
"But I shall never remember!" groaned the other, and for the first time
the words held a note that was not wholly boyish, it sounded wistful,
even rather piteous. "People's ways are all so different. It's rather
infernal--trying to please everybody, you know, Bunny."
"Never mind!" said Bunny, in a brotherly tone. "I'll kick you every time
I see it coming if you like."
"Will you really? That would be jolly decent of you." The wistfulness
vanished in a laugh that was quick and musical, wholly spontaneous.
"You bet I will!" said Bunny.
"Right O! Mind you do! Now get out of the way and see me jump that rose
tree!"
There followed the light scamper of feet, and Maud raised herself swiftly
and leaned forth in time to see an athletic little figure in navy blue
wearing a jaunty Panama hat, skim like a bird over a sweeping Dorothy
Perkins just coming into bloom and alight on one leg with the perfect
poise of a winged Mercury on the other side.
CHAPTER VI
HOW TO MANAGE MEN
Bunny's lanky form followed and also cleared the rose-tree with
infinitely less grace, and again the girl laughed, her wide blue eyes
alight with mirth.
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