jorie knew he was fairly aching to shout and race
around, yet he looked so demure that he almost made her laugh.

Not that she did! No, indeed, she knew better than that; but though she
tried very hard to appear at her ease, her nature was so sensitive to
mental atmosphere, that her cakes almost choked her.

Rosy Posy was perfectly at ease. The midget sat quietly, and accepted
with benign grace the milk and crackers fed to her by one of the maids.

But at last the tea hour was over and the Maynards discovered that virtue
is sometimes rewarded.

"You are most pleasant and amiable children," said Grandma Maynard,
looking judicially at the quartet, "and you certainly have very good
manners. I'm glad to see, Ed, that you have brought them up to be quiet
and sedate. I detest noisy children."

"Yes, you are sensible, and not annoying to have around," agreed Grandpa
Maynard, and the three older children smiled respectfully at the
compliment, but offered no reply.

"And now," went on Grandpa Maynard, "I think that you should be amused
for an hour. They don't sit up to dinner, of course, my dear?" he added,
turning to his wife.

"Yes, we do!" was on the tip of Marjorie's tongue, but she checked the
speech just in time, and said nothing.

"No, of course not," replied Grandma Maynard; "our dinner hour is eight,
and that is too late for children. Besides, I have invited some guests to
meet Ed and Helen. So the children will have supper in the small
breakfast-room at half-past six, and meantime, as you say, we must give
them some amusement."

King greatly wondered what these grandparents' idea of amusement would
be, but Marjorie and Kitty had so little hope that it would be anything
very enjoyable that they took little interest in it.

However, when it proved that the amusement was to be a ride in the park,
it sounded rather attractive.

CHAPTER XII

AT GRANDMA MAYNARD'S

The ride in the park, though conducted under rather formal conditions,
proved very enjoyable to the four young Maynards.

Grandpa Maynard's equipage was a Victoria with a span of fine horses. On
the high front seat sat the coachman and footman in livery, who looked
sufficiently dignified and responsible to take care of a merry flock of
children.

But, impressed by their surroundings, the children were not very merry,
and Marjorie sat decorously on the back seat with Rosy Posy beside her,
while King and Kitty sat facing them.

It was a l