The Garden Party, and Other Stories

hey had asked her. It was Josephine's idea. On the morning-well, on the last morning, when the doctor had gone, Josephine ha

e," said

, 'My sister and I would be very pleased, after all you've done for us, Nurse Andrews, if you

rdly expect to be pai

ows," said Jo

wn meals at the proper times, whereas if they'd been alone they could just have asked Kate if she wouldn't have

hat she had on her plate, and then, at the last mouthful, absent-mindedly-of course it wasn't absent-mindedly-taking another helping. Josephine got very red when this happened, and she fastened her small, bead-like eyes on the tablec

It was a silvah Cupid balanced on the-on the bordah of a glass dish, holding a tayny fork. And when you wan

But "I think those things are ve

ough her eyeglasses. "No one, surely, would

ephine. She couldn't t

the old tabbies wanted now. She snatched away their plates of mock

Kate," said Jo

ifted the lid of the jam-pot, saw it was e

se Andrews a moment la

Josephine. She bit her lip

s. "We can't disturb Kat

onstantia in despair went back to her camels. Josephine frowned heavily-concentrated. If it hadn't been for

de. There's some marmalade i

was like a spoon tinkling against a medicine-g