`` No ; got them in my pocket . '' And Bab produced from that chaotic cupboard two rather stale and crumbly ones , saved from lunch for the fete . These were cut up and arranged in plates , forming a graceful circle around the cake , still in its basket . `` Ma could n't spare much milk , so we must mix water with it . Strong tea is n't good for children , she says . '' And Bab contentedly surveyed the gill of skim-milk which was to satisfy the thirst of the company . `` While the tea draws and the cake cools , let 's sit down and rest ; I 'm so tired ! '' sighed Betty , dropping down on the door-step and stretching out the stout little legs which had been on the go all day ; for Saturday had its tasks as well as its fun , and much business had preceded this unusual pleasure . Bab went and sat beside her , looking idly down the walk toward the gate , where a fine cobweb shone in the afternoon sun . `` Ma says she is going over the house in a day or two , now it is warm and dry after the storm , and we may go with her . You know she would n't take us in the fall , cause we had whooping-cough , and it was damp there . Now we shall see all the nice things ; wo n't it be fun ? '' observed Bab , after a pause . `` Yes , indeed ! Ma says there 's lots of books in one room , and I can look at 'em while she goes round . May be I 'll have time to read some , and then I can tell you , '' answered Betty , who dearly loved stories , and seldom got any new ones . `` I 'd rather see the old spinning-wheel up garret , and the big pictures , and the queer clothes in the blue chest . It makes me mad to have them all shut up there , when we might have such fun with them . I 'd just like to bang that old door down ! '' And Bab twisted round to give it a thump with her boots .
`` You need n't laugh ; you XXXXX you 'd like it as much as me , '' she added , twisting back again , rather ashamed of her impatience .
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