"I wouldn't let them wait any longer by the Antwerp road,anyway," she exclaimed when Granny had finished. "There is no use inthe world in looking for their mother to come that way. She sometimes wasprobably driven over the border long ago. You just leave themwith me to-morrow while you go to town. 'Twill cheer them up abit to play with Joseph and the babies."

"Well, now," exclaimed Granny, "if that isn't just like your goodheart!"