"And _was_ it the way to fairyland?" asked his mother, smiling.
Griselda shook her head as she replied--
"Phil doesn't understand yet," she said gently. "He isn't old enough.
The way to the true fairyland is hard to find, and we must each find it
for ourselves, mustn't we?"
She looked up in the lady's face as she spoke, and saw that _she_
understood.
"Yes, dear child," she answered softly, and perhaps a very little sadly.
"But Phil and you may help each other, and I perhaps may help you both."
Griselda slid her hand into the lady's. "You're not going to take Phil
away, are you?" she whispered.
"No, I have come to stay here," she answered, "and Phil's father is
coming too, soon. We are going to live at the White House--the house on
the other side of the wood, on the way to Merrybrow. Are you glad,
children?"
* * * * *
Griselda had a curious dream that night--merely a dream, nothing else.
She dreamt that the cuckoo came once more; this time, he told her, to
say "good-bye."
"For you will not need me now," he said.
"I leave you in good hands, Griselda.
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