"Thank you, ma'am; I'll cut it fresh the morning I bring it," said Bella delightedly. "Very well; I live in this house we are standing by," and she pointed to the very one they had just been turned away from. Bella's face flushed at the mere thought of having to face the bad-tempered servant again, but, as she remarked to Tom afterwards, they were told to call, and they wouldn't have gone unless they had been. "That makes eighteenpence," said Tom, as Bella slipped the money into her purse, "and an order for two shillings' worth for another week. Ain't we getting on!" "If we can only sell a few more bunches we'll go and get something to eat," said Bella. "I'm hungry; ain't you?" "Starving," said Tom, with emphasis. "Let's get into a better place, where the people can see us." "Flowers, penny a bunch," he called to the people as they passed by, and so many turned and looked, and then stopped, that they had soon sold half a dozen of their big bunches and many of the small ones. Their flowers were certainly very good and very cheap, and Norton people had not had the chance of buying such before. The florist who had passed the children on the road had a stall in the market-place, but he only sold hothouse flowers, and charged very highly for them. "We have only six bunches left," said Bella joyfully; "we'll go and have something to eat now. Where can we go for it, Tom?" "There's a stall in the market-house where they sell limpets and cockles, and----" "Oh, I don't want limpets and cockles! I want a glass of milk and some buns. Don't you?" "Rather," said Tom; "let's buy some buns at that shop down there, and go somewhere quiet to eat them. I wouldn't like to eat them in the shop, with every one looking, would you?" "No; but we can't take milk away without something to carry it in." "Well, we'll drink water. There's sure to be a pump or a drinking-fountain near." So they went to the shop, and very proud Bella felt as she took out her purse and paid for the four buns the woman put in a bag for her. "Anything else, missie?" "No, thank you," said Bella, but rather regretfully, as her eyes fell on the tarts and sausage-rolls, and the bottles of sweets, and on the glasses of milk labelled 'Penny a glass.' A glass each would have cost twopence, and that with the buns would amount to sixpence. "It would be a dreadful lot out of what we've made," thought Bella, and bravely turned away. The smell of the new buns was very enticing to two hungry little people who had had nothing to eat since their seven o'clock breakfast, and they did not dawdle on their way back to the friendly shelter of the church steps. "Won't Charlie and Margery be excited to hear all about it?" laughed Bella, as she munched in placid content. "We ought to take something home to them."