Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy

Author:Maeve Binchy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General, Caterers and Catering, Fiction
ISBN: 0752842994
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2000-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

'The dancing teacher's coming round tonight,' Lizzie told the twins.

'Oh, good, will we wear our costumes?' Simon wanted to know.

'No, I don't want them getting all messed up, I've made up cheap kilts and cloaks for you so you can get the swish of it all…' Lizzie's face was glowing with pride over it all. 'The teacher says you need a bit of practice; suppose you were to take a tape home with you and practise in your kitchen back there?'

'Yes… yes, we could I suppose,' Simon looked doubtful.

'Or would that not be too easy?'Muttie wondered.

Simon threw him a grateful glance. 'You see, it's Father… He can't understand fellows dancing, he says, and he doesn't understand it being a family wedding. I said it was for our cousins coming from Chicago, and he didn't understand that either.'

Simon looked embarrassed by having to explain all this, but Muttie hastened to reassure him. 'Oh, a man like your father, who'd have travelled and all, he'd not be in the way of knowing the way things have changed, fellows dancing and leaping all over the place there are nowadays,' he said cheerfully.

'But it is a family wedding, isn't it?' Maud was always anxious to have things straight.

In a way… But of course…' Lizzie began. Humble again, and still not wanting to claim any kinship with the great Mitchells.

It is of course a family wedding. Isn't Cathy the sister of the bride, and she's married to Neil, your first cousin. What on earth could be closer than that?'Muttie asked. This satisfied the twins totally, and they ran off to teach Hooves the new trick before the dancing teacher came.

Muttie and Lizzie looked at each other.

'We should never have taken them in,' Lizzie said.

'We should never have let them leave,'Muttie said.

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