She'll
have come across him somewhere, and he's bribed her to keep it
dark--see? What a gooseberry I was never to think of it! We'll have
'em face to face!"
"Suppose Polly won't?"
"Won't? Gosh, but she _shall_! If I have to carry her downstairs,
she shall! Think we're going to let her keep a thing like this to
herself? You just wait and see. Leave it to me, that's all. Lucky
there's only friends in the house. Polly, likes a row, and, by
jorrocks, she shall have one!"
CHAPTER IX
POLLY'S DEFIANCE
Content with her four lodgers, Mrs. Bubb reserved the rooms on the
ground floor for her own use. In that at the back she slept with the
two younger children; the other two had a little bed in the front
room, which during the daytime served as a parlour. On occasions of
ceremony--when the parlour was needed in the evening--the children
slept in a bare attic next to that occupied by Moggie; and this they
looked upon as a treat, for it removed them from their mother's
observation, and gave opportunities for all sorts of adventurous
pranks.
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