The Wind on the Moon (New York Review Children's Collection) by Eric Linklater

Author:Eric Linklater [Linklater, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781590174333
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2011-09-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

On Saturday morning they walked with Miss Serendip into Midmeddlecum to do some shopping, and on the way Dorinda said to Dinah, ‘Have you thought of anything yet?’

‘Not yet,’ said Dinah.

‘It was very nearly a promise that we made him,’ said Dorinda. ‘I mean, when you said that the next time we saw him he would be in his own house in Holly Street. That was practically a promise.’

‘It was a promise,’ said Dinah, ‘and we shall have to keep it. But I don’t know how.’

‘Shall we have to keep our promises even when we are grown-up?’ asked Dorinda.

‘Yes, I think so,’ said Dinah. ‘You just can’t get out of them.’

‘I thought life would be a lot easier when we grew up,’ said Dorinda with a sigh.

‘When we are very old and cautious,’ said Dinah, ‘I daresay we shan’t make any promises. And that will save trouble.’

‘Look!’ exclaimed Dorinda. ‘Those two men in bowler hats—oh, I’ve forgotten their names!’

‘Mr. Hobson and Mr. Jobson,’ said Dinah.

‘They’re lawyers, aren’t they?’

‘I think they’re called barristers.’

‘Well, it’s the same sort of thing. It was they who had to argue with the Judge and the Jury when Mrs. Taper was tried.’

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