1 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: Welcome sleep tight stories. The Story Girl, Chapter one, The 2 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: Home of our Fathers. I do like a road because 3 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: you can be always wondering what is at the end 4 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: of it. The story Girl said that once upon a time, 5 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: Felix and I, on the May morning when we left 6 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: Toronto for Prince Edward Island, had not then heard her 7 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 1: say it, and indeed were but barely aware of the 8 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: existence of such a person as the story Girl. We 9 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: did not know her at all under that name. We 10 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: knew only that a cousin, Sarah Stanley, whose mother our 11 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: aunt Felicity was dead, was living down on the island 12 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: with Uncle Roger and Aunt Olivia King, on a farm 13 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: adjoining the old King homestead in Carlisle. We supposed we 14 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: should get acquainted with her when we reached there, and 15 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: we had an idea from Aunt Olivia's letters to Father 16 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: that she would be quite a jolly creature. Further than that, 17 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: we did not think of her. We were more interested 18 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: in Felicity and Cecily and Dan, who lived on the 19 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: homestead and would therefore be our roofmates for a season. 20 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 1: But the spirit of the story girls, yet unuttered remark, 21 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: was thrilling in our hearts. That morning, as the train 22 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: pulled out of Toronto, we were faring forth on a 23 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: long road, and though we had some idea what would 24 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: be at the end of it, there was enough glamour 25 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: of the unknown about it to lend a wonderful charm 26 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: to our speculations concerning it. We were delighted at the 27 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: thought of seeing father's old home and living among the 28 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: haunts of his boyhood. He had talked so much to 29 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:12,239 Speaker 1: us about it, and described its scenes so often and 30 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: so minutely, that he had inspired us with some of 31 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: his own deep seated affection for it, an affection that 32 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: had never waned in all his years of exile. We 33 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: had a vague feeling that we somehow belonged there, in 34 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: that cradle of our family. Though we had never seen it, 35 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: we had always looked forward eagerly to the promised day 36 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: when Father would take us down home to the old 37 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: house with the spruces behind behind it and the famous 38 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: King orchard before it, and we might ramble in Uncle 39 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: Stephen's walk, drink from the deep well with the Chinese 40 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: roof over it, stand on the pulpit stone, and eat 41 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: apples from our birthday trees. The time had come sooner 42 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 1: than we had dared to hope. But father could not 43 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: take us. After all, his firm asked him to go 44 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: to Rio de Janeiro that spring to take charge of 45 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: their new branch there. It was too good a chance 46 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: to lose, for father was a poor man, and it 47 00:04:53,279 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: meant promotion, an increase of salary. But it all so 48 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: meant the temporary breaking up of our home. Our mother 49 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: had died before either of us was old enough to 50 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: remember her. Father could not take us to Rio de Janeiro. 51 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: In the end, he decided to send us to Uncle 52 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: Alec and Aunt Janet down on the homestead, and our housekeeper, 53 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: who belonged to the island and was now returning to it, 54 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: took charge of us on the journey. I fear she 55 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: had an anxious trip of it, poor woman. She was 56 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: constantly in a quite justifiable terror. Least we should be 57 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: lost or harmed. She must have felt great relief when 58 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:05,239 Speaker 1: she reached Charlottetown and handed us over to the keeping 59 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: of Uncle Alec. Indeed, she said as much. The fat 60 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: one isn't so bad. He isn't so quick to move 61 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: and get out of your sight while you're winking as 62 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: the thin one, but the only safe way to travel 63 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: with those young ones would be to have him both 64 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 1: tied to you with a short rope, a mighty short rope. 65 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: The fat one was Felix, who was very sensitive about 66 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: his plumpness. He was always taking exercises to make him thin, 67 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: with the dismal result that he became fatter all the time. 68 00:06:55,480 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: He vowed that he didn't care, but he did care terribly, 69 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: and he glowered at missus McLaren in the most undutiful fashion. 70 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: He had never liked her since the day she had 71 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: told him he would soon be as broad as he 72 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: was long. For my own part, I was rather sorry 73 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: to see her going, and she cried over us and 74 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: wished us well, but we had forgotten all about her 75 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: by the time we reached the open country, driving along 76 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: one on either side of Uncle Alec, whom we loved 77 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: from the moment we saw him. He was a small 78 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: man with thin, delicate features, close clipped gray beard, and 79 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: large tired blue eyes father's eyes. Over again, we knew 80 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: that Uncle Alec was fond of children and was heart 81 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: glad to welcome Alan's boys. We felt at home with 82 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: him and were not afraid to ask him questions on 83 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: any subject that came uppermost in our minds. We became 84 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: very good friends with him on that twenty four mile drive. 85 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:41,439 Speaker 1: Much to our disappointment, it was dark when we reached Carlisle, 86 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,839 Speaker 1: too dark to see anything. Very distinctly. As we drove 87 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: up the lane of the old king homestead. On the 88 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: hill behind us, a young moon was hanging over southwestern 89 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: meadows of springtime peace. But all about us were the soft, 90 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: moist shadows of a May night. We peered eagerly through 91 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: the gloom. There's the big willow bev whispered Felix excitedly, 92 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: as we turned in at the gate. There it was, 93 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: in truth, the tree Grandfather King had planted when he 94 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: returned one evening from plowing in the brookfield and stuck 95 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: the willow switch he had used all day in the 96 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: soft soil by the gate. It had taken root and grown. 97 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: Our father and our uncles and aunts had played in 98 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: its shadow, and now it was a massive thing, with 99 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: a huge girth of trunk and grates breading boughs, each 100 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: of them as large as a tree in itself. I'm 101 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: going to climb it tomorrow, I said, joyfully, off to 102 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: the right was a dim branching place which we knew 103 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: was the orchard, And on our left, among sibulant spruce 104 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: and fir was the old whitewashed house, from which presently 105 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: a light gleamed through an open door. And Aunt Janet, 106 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: a big bustling woman with full blown peony cheeks, came 107 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: to welcome us. Soon after. We were at supper in 108 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: the kitchen, with its low, dark, raftered ceiling, from which 109 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: substantial hams and flitches of bacon were hanging. Everything was 110 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: just as father had described it. We felt that we 111 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:18,839 Speaker 1: had come home, leaving exile behind us. Felicity, Cecily, and 112 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: Dan were sitting opposite us, staring at us when they 113 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: thought we would be too busy eating to see them. 114 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: We tried to stare at them when they were eating, 115 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 1: and as a result we were always catching each other 116 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:44,199 Speaker 1: at it, and feeling cheap and embarrassed. Dan was the oldest, 117 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:52,119 Speaker 1: he was my age thirteen. He was a lean, freckled 118 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: fellow with rather long, lank brown hair and the shapely 119 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: king nose. We recognized it as once. His mouth was 120 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: his own, however, for it was like to no mouth 121 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: on either the King or the ward side, and nobody 122 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: would have been anxious to claim it, for it was 123 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 1: an undeniably ugly one, long and narrow and twisted, but 124 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: it could grin in friendly fashion, and both Felix and 125 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: I felt that we were going to like Dan. Felicity 126 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: was twelve. She had been called after Aunt Felicity, who 127 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: was the twin sister of Uncle Felix. Aunt Felicity and 128 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: Uncle Felix, as father had often told us, had died 129 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: on the same day, far apart, and were buried side 130 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: by side in the old Carlisle Graveyard. We had known 131 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: from Aunt Olivia's letters that Felicity was the beauty of 132 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: the Connection, and we had been curious to see her 133 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: on that account. She fully justified our expectations. She was 134 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: plump and dimpled, with big, dark blue, heavy lidded eyes, 135 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: soft feathery golden curls, and a pink and white skin 136 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: the king complexion. The kings were noted for their noses 137 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: and complexion. Felicity had also delightful hands and wrists. At 138 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 1: every turn of the a dimple showed itself. It was 139 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: a pleasure to wonder what her elbows must be like. 140 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: She was very nicely dressed in a pink print and 141 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: a frilled Muslim apron, and we understood from something Dan 142 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: said that she had dressed up in honor of our coming. 143 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: This made us feel quite important. So far as we knew, 144 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: no feminine creatures had ever gone to the pains of 145 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: dressing up on our account before. Cecily, who was eleven, 146 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: was pretty also, or would have been had Felicity not 147 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: been there. Felicity rather took the color from other girls. 148 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: Cecily looked pale and thin beside, but she had dainty 149 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: little features, smooth brown hair of satin cheen, and mild 150 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: brown eyes with just a hint of demureness in them. 151 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: Now and again we remembered that Aunt Olivia had written 152 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: to Father that Cecily was a true word. She had 153 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: no sense of humor. We did not know what this meant, 154 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: but we thought it was not exactly complimentary. Still, we 155 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: were both inclined to think we would like Cecily better 156 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: than Felicity. To be sure, Felicity was a stunning beauty, 157 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 1: but with the swift and uneerring intuition of childhood, which 158 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: feels in a moment what sometimes takes maturity much time 159 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: to perceive, we realized that she was rather too well 160 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: aware of her good looks. In brief, we saw that 161 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: Felicity was vain. It's a wonder the story Girl isn't 162 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: over here to see you, said Uncle Alec. She's been 163 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: quite wild with excitement about your coming. She hasn't been 164 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: very well all day, explained Cecily, and Aunt Olivia wouldn't 165 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: let her come out in the night air. She made 166 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: her go to bed instead. The story Girl was awfully disappointed. 167 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:44,359 Speaker 1: Who is the story girl, asked Felix. Oh, Sarah Sarah Stanley. 168 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 1: We call her the story girl, partly because she's such 169 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: a hand to tell stories. Oh, I can't begin to 170 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: describe it, and partly because Sarah Ray, who lives at 171 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: the foot of the hill, often comes up to play 172 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: with it, and it is awkward to have two girls 173 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: of the same name in the same crowd. Besides, Sarah 174 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: Stanley doesn't like her name, and she'd rather be called 175 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: the story girl. Dan, speaking for the first time, rather, 176 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: sheepishly volunteered the information that Peter had also been intending 177 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: to come over, but had to go home to take 178 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: some flower to his mother instead. Peter, I questioned, I 179 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: had never heard of any Peter. He is your uncle 180 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: Roger's handy boy, said Uncle Alec. His name is Peter Craig, 181 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,879 Speaker 1: and he is a real smart little chap, but he's 182 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 1: got his share of mischief. That same lad. He wants 183 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: to be Felicity's beaux, said Dan, slyly. Don't talk silly nonsense, 184 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: Dan said, Aunt janetsonly. Felicity tossed her golden head and 185 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: shot an unsisterly glance at Dan. It wouldn't be very 186 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: likely to have a hired boy for a bow, she observed. 187 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 1: We saw that her anger was real, not affected. Evidently 188 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: Peter was not an admirer of whom Felicity was proud. 189 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: We were very hungry boys, and when we had eaten 190 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:39,360 Speaker 1: all we could, and oh what suppers Aunt Janet always spread, 191 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: we discovered that we were also very tired, too tired 192 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 1: to go out and explore our ancestral domains as we 193 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: would have liked to do. Despite the dark, we were 194 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: quite willing to go to bed, and presently we found 195 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: ourselves tucked away upstairs in the very room, looking out 196 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: eastward into the spruce grove which father had once occupied. 197 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: Dan shared it with us, sleeping in a bed of 198 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: his own in the opposite corner. The sheets and pillow 199 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 1: slips were fragrant with lavender, and one of Grandfather King's 200 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: noted patchwork quilts was over us. The window was open, 201 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: and we heard the frogs singing down in the swamp 202 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 1: of the meadow brook. We had heard frog sing in Ontario, 203 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 1: of course, but certainly Prince Edward Island frogs were more 204 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: tuneful and mellow. Or was it simply the glamour of 205 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: old family traditions and tails which was over us, lending 206 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: its magic to all sights and sounds around us. This 207 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: was home, Father's home, our home. We had never lived 208 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 1: long enough in any one house to develop a feeling 209 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: of affection for it. But here, under the roof tree 210 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: built by great grandfather King ninety years ago, that feeling 211 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: swept into our boyish hearts and souls like a flood 212 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: of living sweetness and tenderness. Just think those are the 213 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 1: very frogs father listened to when he was a little boy, 214 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: whispered Felix. But they can hardly be the same frogs, 215 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 1: I objected, doubtfully, not very certain about the possible longevity 216 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:09,199 Speaker 1: of frogs. It's twenty years since father left home. Well, 217 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 1: they're the descendants of the frogs, he heard, said Felix, 218 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: and they're singing in the same swamp. That's near enough. 219 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 1: Our door was open, and in their room across the 220 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 1: narrow hall, the girls were preparing for bed, and talking 221 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: rather more loudly than they might have done had they 222 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: realized how far their sweet, shrill voices carried. What do 223 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: you think of the boys, asked Cecily. Beverly is handsome, 224 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: but Felix is too fat, answered Felicity promptly. Felix twitched 225 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:55,919 Speaker 1: the quilt rather viciously and grunted. But I began to 226 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: think I would like Felicity. It might not be altogether 227 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: her fault that she was vain. How could she help 228 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: it when she looked in the mirror. I think they're 229 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: both nice and nice looking, said Cecily, dear little soul. 230 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: I wonder what the story girl will think of them, 231 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: said Felicity, as if, after all, that was the main thing. Somehow, 232 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: we too felt that it was. We felt that if 233 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: the story girl did not approve of us, it made 234 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: little difference who else did or did not. I wonder 235 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:48,199 Speaker 1: if the story girl is pretty, said Felix. Aloud. No 236 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 1: she isn't, said Dan instantly from across the room. But 237 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: you'll think she is while she's talking to you. Everybody does. 238 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 1: It's only when you go away from her that you 239 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 1: find out she isn't a bit pretty after all. The 240 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: girl's door shut with a bang. Silence fell over the house. 241 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: We drifted into the land of sleep, wondering if the 242 00:23:19,000 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: story girl would like us.