to get a taxi, that's all. Whew! I'm being blown to bits! I want to
get back to my pen-painting. I'm making a birthday present for my
cousin. Ta-ta!"

Diana stood watching Peggy's retreating figure as the latter raced up
the garden and into the house.

"Toddlekins will be rather savage not to be met," she commented.

"Yes; she's so keen on the trap, and the amount it saves in taxis and
carriers."

"It does seem rough on her, especially when she's sent a telegram. Look
here, old thing, let's take it to meet her ourselves!"

"What? You and me?"

"Why not? I can drive, and I know how to harness Baron. I have helped to
put him in the trap heaps of times. Bunty? Best not tell her anything
about it; she's always such a scared rabbit, and she'd only have fits!"

Wendy's eyes shone like stars.

"It _would_ be a stunt! Fancy driving in state to the station and
fetching Toddlekins! She'd be pleased to save a taxi."

"Bless her, she shall! We'll show her that her girls have some spirit
and self-reliance at a crisis. It's only making a practical
demonstration of our new agricultural course! What's the use of learning
if you can't apply it at the right moment? Run and fetch our coats and
hats and gloves, that's a cherub, while I go and tell Baron all about
it."

Wendy, much thrilled, and fired with the excellence of Diana's notion,
went indoors, and, taking elaborate precautions not to meet anybody,
secured outdoor garments worthy of the occasion. She rolled them in a
Union Jack for camouflage, and bore them off to the stable.

"I've brought 'bests'," she said. "Toddlekins wouldn't thank to be met
by two Cinderellas!"

Diana was standing with her arms thrown round Baron's neck, whispering
sweet nothings into his twitching ear. If he did not understand the
substance of her remarks, he realized the force of her affection, and
kept rubbing his nose against her shoulder in a sort of caress, very
gently catching her jersey with his lips and pulling it.

"I've told him, and he's delighted to go," declared Diana. "He's just
pining for a run. It's so dull for him standing here with no one to talk
to. It takes away his appetite. He'll enjoy his supper twice as much
when he comes back. Won't you, dear old man?"

"We mustn't be all day about starting. If you've finished making love to
him, let's get out the trap."

"Right you are!"

Diana was perfectly capable of accomplishing what she had undertaken.
She took down the ha