You 've been promising Edward for years to visit him , and you 'll never have a better chance . The haying is over and harvest is n't on , and Alec needs a change . He is n't looking well at all . '' I think it was Uncle Roger 's last argument which convinced Aunt Janet . In the end she decided to go . Uncle Roger 's house was to be closed , and he and Peter and the Story Girl were to take up their abode with us . We were all delighted . Felicity , in especial , seemed to be in seventh heaven . To be left in sole charge of a big house , with three meals a day to plan and prepare , with poultry and cows and dairy and garden to superintend , apparently furnished forth Felicity 's conception of Paradise . Of course , we were all to help ; but Felicity was to `` run things , '' and she gloried in it . The Story Girl was pleased , too . `` Felicity is going to give me cooking lessons , '' she confided to me , as we walked in the orchard . `` Is n't that fine ? It will be easier when there are no grown-ups around to make me nervous , and laugh if I make mistakes . '' Uncle Alec and aunts left on Monday morning . Poor Aunt Janet was full of dismal forebodings , and gave us so many charges and warnings that we did not try to remember any of them ; Uncle Alec merely told us to be good and mind what Uncle Roger said . Aunt Olivia laughed at us out of her pansy-blue eyes , and told us she knew exactly what we felt like and hoped we 'd have a gorgeous time . `` Mind they go to bed at a decent hour , '' Aunt Janet called back to Uncle Roger as she drove out of the gate . `` And if anything dreadful happens telegraph us . '' Then they were really gone and we were all left `` to keep house . ''
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