CHAPTER III.
WALTER'S
CONVICTIONS.
IT is a bright, cold, frosty morning, the day on
which Bernard is expected home, and the
three little girls will keep running to the
window to watch for him, though they'have been
assured he will not be home much before their
tea-time. They talk of nothing else but what
they have got to show him, and what he will
have to offer them. Maud has such a nice doll,
and it has been dressed since daybreak in its very
best to see Bernard; Evelyn can play a familiar
waltz of his, and is longing he shall hear it; and
Lilly has worked a pair of slippers and put them
in his room, and is so anxious for him to see
them, and guess who made them. And so they
talk, and watch, and cannot eat their dinners,