"Us, and our charge"

I CAN hardly believe it is only a year I since I wrote my diary. I think it is things happening that make people old, and not just weeks and months and years rolling by.

OUR last Sunday! I've been crying off and on all day, when nobody was near me to see. It's all so sweet and sad here, and the future makes me afraid. Yesterday we all went round...

IT was a big warm, airless room; you could see no walls for the bookshelves and pictures which covered it. Aunt Isobel was sitting by the fire with the newspaper in her hand. Sh...

"Here, you girls, got any sashes? We must make a rope; there's a fellow a good way down the cliff. He has stuck there, can't get up or down—we'll have to get him up."

THIS morning was lovely and hot, and directly after breakfast we went down to the sea. I can't think how people can possibly stay in the house when the sea is close to them outs...

Now I knew how daring the boys are. I knew if we did, they would squeeze themselves through that hole, and we would see them dangling in mid-air by the rope, so I told Davey not...

IF only we could stop and think sometimes! We do all our worst scrapes all in a minute, and this is what happened last night, and of course, being Sunday, it made it a hundred t...

"If you had come ten minutes later, Aunt Isobel," I said, "you would have found us in beautiful order. We've been working hard all the afternoon to get tidy, but we're just in t...

WE have dinner at one o'clock in the schoolroom with Miss Garton. She gives us till three o'clock to play about in the garden or do what we like, and then we begin lessons again...

PEGGY knows all about our Great-aunt Grisel. She always comes into our rooms and brushes out our hair for us in the evening. Aunt Isobel told her to do it after Miss Garton came...

"Well, ye see, I have a cousin at Dublin, a captain in the Royal Irish Fusiliers. I've just sent a wire to him. He'll run it for me, and make it smooth for the aunt!"

TO-DAY was awfully hot. The boys always have their bathe in the sea before breakfast, and sometimes Lynette and I go with them, but we were lazy this morning and did not go. The...

When we got there, we were introduced to Miss Fawcett. She was very tall, with grey hair rolled up off her forehead and beautiful big blue eyes, and she had a jolly comfortable...

WE had no time to scream. He seized hold of both of us, and then, it was very strange—all my fright went, and I knew I must keep my head very very clear, and not funk a little t...

I love arranging flowers, especially when one is allowed to pick what one chooses from the greenhouses. And when I had filled all the vases, Aunt Grisel asked me to come with he...

We had a very happy New Year's Eve. Gervas came over, but he wasn't really himself till he came up into our schoolroom and had tea with us. We were all to dine downstairs in the...