And your old daddy not there to welcome you ! '' Sara laughed , swung herself back by the tips of her fingers and danced around him in the childish fashion of long ago . `` I found I could make an earlier connection with the C.P.A. yesterday and get to the Island last night . I was in such a fever to get home that I jumped at the chance . Of course I walked from the station -- it 's only two miles and every step was a benediction . My trunks are over there . We 'll go after them to-morrow , daddy , but just now I want to go straight to every one of the dear old nooks and spots at once . '' `` You must get something to eat first , '' he urged fondly . `` And there ai n't much in the house , I 'm afraid . I was going to bake to-morrow morning . But I guess I can forage you out something , darling . '' He was sorely repenting having given Mrs. Blewett 's doughnuts to the pigs , but Sara brushed all such considerations aside with a wave of her hand . `` I do n't want anything to eat just now . By and by we 'll have a snack ; just as we used to get up for ourselves whenever we felt hungry . Do n't you remember how scandalized White Sands folks used to be at our irregular hours ? I 'm hungry ; but it 's soul hunger , for a glimpse of all the dear old rooms and places . Come -- there are four hours yet before sunset , and I want to cram into them all I 've missed out of these three years . Let us begin right here with the garden . Oh , daddy , by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom ? '' `` No witchcraft at all -- it just bloomed because you were coming home , baby , '' said her father .
They had a glorious afternoon XXXXX it , those two children .
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