"I wouldn't have such small feet," she said; "I shouldn't feel
secure of my understanding."
"Mrs. Tallboys would not change with you, Gussie," said Captain
Duncombe. "I'd back her any day--"
"What odds will you take, Captain--"
But Mrs. Duncombe broke in. "Bless me, if there aren't those little
dogs of mine! Lena Vivian does spoil them. Send them home, for
pity's sake, Bob."
"Poor little kids, they are doing no harm."
"We shall have them tumbling in, and no end of a row! I can't stand
a swarm of children after me, and they are making a perfect victim
of Lena. Send them home, Bob, or I shall have to do it."
The Captain obeyed somewhat ruefully. "Come, my lads, Bessie says
you must go home, and leave Miss Vivian in peace."
"O, Bob, please let us stay; Lena is taking care of us--"
"Indeed I like nothing so well," protested Lenore; but the Captain
murmured something about higher powers, and cheerfully saying he
would give the boys a run, took each by an unwilling hand, and raced
them into a state of frightened jollity by a short cut, by which he
was able to dispose of them in the drag.
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