`` I KNEW he never went out of the door , '' cried Dan triumphantly . When the last buggy had driven away , Felicity set a batch of bread , and the rest of us sat around the back porch steps in the cat 's light and ate cherries , shooting the stones at each other . Cecily was in quest of information . `` What does ` it never rains but it pours ' mean ? '' `` Oh , it means if anything happens something else is sure to happen , '' said the Story Girl . `` I 'll illustrate . There 's Mrs. Murphy . She never had a proposal in her life till she was forty , and then she had three in the one week , and she was so flustered she took the wrong one and has been sorry ever since . Do you see what it means now ? '' `` Yes , I guess so , '' said Cecily somewhat doubtfully . Later on we heard her imparting her newly acquired knowledge to Felicity in the pantry . '' ` It never rains but it pours ' means that nobody wants to marry you for ever so long , and then lots of people do . '' CHAPTER XIV . FORBIDDEN FRUIT We were all , with the exception of Uncle Roger , more or less grumpy in the household of King next day . Perhaps our nerves had been upset by the excitement attendant on Jimmy Patterson 's disappearance . But it is more likely that our crankiness was the result of the supper we had eaten the previous night . Even children can not devour mince pie , and cold fried pork ham , and fruit cake before going to bed with entire impunity . Aunt Janet had forgotten to warn Uncle Roger to keep an eye on our bedtime snacks , and we ate what seemed good unto us . Some of us had frightful dreams , and all of us carried chips on our shoulders at breakfast . Felicity and Dan began a bickering which they kept up the entire day .
Felicity had a natural aptitude for what we called `` bossing , '' and in her mother 's absence she deemed that she had a right XXXXX rule supreme .
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