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 saw you last!" said Auntie, as she unfastened Fen's collar. "You called me 'An Tinky.' You used to bring me very short-stemmed buttercups."

"Did I?" said Fen; "I don't remember it a bit! How funny!"

"You were very round and cuddly, and you had copper-colored curls all over your head," said Auntie; "and when I tried to make a picture of you, you ran away and hid under a sofa."

"Did I?" said Fen. It seemed quite incredible to him that he should ever have been able to hide under a sofa.

"But," said Auntie, critically, "I think I like you a great deal more now than I did then, if such a thing were possible, my darling."

As Auntie tucked him in, after letting him look for a few minutes at the twinkling lights through the port-hole, Fen threw his arms around her neck.