Peterkin

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Molesworth Mrs.. Peterkin

CHAPTER I. WHAT CAN HAVE BECOME OF HIM?

CHAPTER II. FOUND

CHAPTER III. AN INVITATION

CHAPTER IV. VERY MYSTERIOUS

CHAPTER V 'STRATAGEMS'

CHAPTER VI. MARGARET

CHAPTER VII. THE GREAT PLAN

CHAPTER VIII. A TERRIBLE IDEA

CHAPTER IX. IN A FOG

CHAPTER X. BERYL

CHAPTER XI. DEAR MAMMA

CHAPTER XII. NO MYSTERY AFTER ALL

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The carriage was standing waiting at our own house when we got there. And there was some bustle going on, for the front door was not shut, and we could see into the hall, which of course was brightly lighted up.

Papa was there, speaking to some one; he had his hat on, as if he was just coming out again. And – yes – it was Drew he was speaking to, and James too, I think – but behind them was poor mamma, looking so dreadfully unhappy. It did make me want to shake Peterkin again.

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Still she is rather growing out of it, and, after all, that night there was something to cry about, and there might have been worse, as nurse said. She had been telling the girls stories of people who got lost, though she was sensible enough to make them turn up all right at the end. She can tell very interesting stories sometimes, but she keeps the best ones to amuse us when we are ill, or when mamma's gone away on a visit, or something horrid like that has happened.

They all three flew at Peterkin, of course, and hugged him as if he'd been shipwrecked, or putting out a fire, or something grand like that. And he took it as coolly as anything, and asked for his tea, as if he deserved all the petting and fussing.

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