delight when they put her to the test, and sat bewildered at their
own table, while the dainty courses followed one another from some
mysterious source to which Pauline alone held the clue,

The children were somewhat in the background now, but they seemed
well cared for, and contented enough when they made their
occasional appearances before their mother's friends. There was a
fine private school in the Gardens, and although the fees for the
two boys, with music lessons twice weekly, came to thirty dollars
a month, Nancy paid it without self-reproach. The alternative was
to send them into the village public school, which was attended by
not one single child from the Gardens. The Ingram boys went away
to boarding school at Pomfret, Dorothy Rose boarded in New York,
and the Underbill boys had a tutor, who also had charge of one or
two other boys preparing for college preparatory schools. While
the boys were away Anne drifted about with her mother, or more
often with Agnes, or was allowed to go to play with Cynthia
Biggerstaff or Harriett Fielding.




Chapter Twenty-three


Life spun on. The Bradleys felt that they had never really lived
before. They rushed, laughed, played cards, dressed, danced, and
sat at delicious meals from morning until night. There were so
many delightful plans continually waiting, that sometimes it was
hard to choose between them. The Fieldings wanted them to dine, to