him with his mother in this ridiculous point of view, looked into those pools of gray light and said modestly that he was just a dub at problems.
"Then at half past eleven," Mrs. Conway went on, "you'll be free to take Antonia to the beach--the public beach, where she likes to get a swim and see her little friends."
"Fight a round or two with her little enemies," said her brother.
"She's only fought once this summer," said his mother. "And I for one think she was perfectly right. Maud is the most annoying child—ugly and impertinent like her mother, and very badly brought up."
"Well, that's not a patch on what they think about Antonia," said Durland, and he turned to Miss Exeter. "Gee, it was great! This Maud child said something rude about Antonia's bare feet, and she sailed in and landed her one on the jaw; and they fought so that the nurses and governesses all ran screaming away and the life-saving men had to come in and separate them."
Mrs. Conway hated this story about her youngest child.
She rose from table in order to interrupt it, observing that Durland needn't worry, as now they were all going to be made perfect.
Pearl on the whole felt encouraged. Augusta, with all her efficiency, could not have swung this job, she thought. It