`` Never you fear , '' answered Felicity decidedly . `` A Cowan would come through ANYTHING for fifty cents . '' After dinner we all , without any verbal decision about it , washed our faces and combed our hair . The girls put on their second best dresses , and we boys donned white collars . We all had the unuttered feeling that we must do such honour to that Picture as we could . Felicity and Dan began a small spat over something , but stopped at once when Cecily said severely , `` How DARE you quarrel when you are going to look at a picture of God to-day ? '' Owing to the rain we could not foregather in the orchard , where we had meant to transact the business with Jerry . We did not wish our grown-ups around at our great moment , so we betook ourselves to the loft of the granary in the spruce wood , from whose window we could see the main road and hail Jerry . Sara Ray had joined us , very pale and nervous , having had , so it appeared , a difference of opinion with her mother about coming up the hill in the rain . `` I 'm afraid I did very wrong to come against ma 's will , '' she said miserably , `` but I COULD N'T wait . I wanted to see the picture as soon as you did . '' We waited and watched at the window . The valley was full of mist , and the rain was coming down in slanting lines over the tops of the spruces . But as we waited the clouds broke away and the sun came out flashingly ; the drops on the spruce boughs glittered like diamonds . `` I do n't believe Jerry can be coming , '' said Cecily in despair . `` I suppose his mother must have thought it was dreadful , after all , to sell such a picture . '' `` There he is now ! '' cried Dan , waving excitedly from the window . `` He 's carrying a fish-basket , '' said Felicity . `` You surely do n't suppose he would bring THAT picture in a fish-basket ! ''
Jerry HAD brought it in a fish-basket , XXXXX appeared when he mounted the granary stairs shortly afterwards .
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