We're making these two
sets of shelves to go at the ends of the seat."
"I see. A great light breaks on me!"
"They're to be fastened to the ends of the seat."
"Not for keeps. That's Ethel Blue's patent. She said it would be
awkward to move about if it were all built together, so we're making it
in three parts, and we're going to lock them together with hooks and
screw eyes."
"That is clever! Then if you want to you can use these sets of shelves
for little bookcases in another room or you can fasten on one of them
and not the other."
"Ethel Blue and I thought we'd make pink cushions for your office if
you'd like them."
"I think they'd be charming. That pink room raises my spirits when--"
"--when you get _blue_?" suggested Roger.
"I'll have to go there now to get revived if those women who walked to
town don't turn up soon," and the Matron went to the corner of the
house whence she could see the lane that led from the road. "If they
come home ill I'll have to ask you to make two bed trays," she
suggested as she peered across the grass.
"How do you make them?"
"Ask Ethel Blue.
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