They had been working in the barnyard and vegetable garden for an hour and were on their way to the tomato field--it was necessary to wait for the heavy dew to dry before they began to work among the vines--when the Willis family gathered for their breakfast at the round table set on the porch this warm morning in Doctor Hugh's honor. "Hugh, will you come watch me wade in the brook?" asked Shirley, eating her cereal as though hypnotized and quite forgetting to protest that she didn't see why she had to drink milk. "You wait till you see Bony, Hugh," Sarah told him. "He's the best pig you ever saw. He's bright." "I wish, if you have time, Hugh," said Rosemary, "you'd show me what is the matter with the camera. Every picture I take is overexposed." "For mercy's sake, let your brother rest," Winnie admonished them, bringing in a plate of fresh Parker House rolls. "He only gets a bit of a breathing spell and he doesn't want to race from one end of this farm to the other. Take that large brown one, Hughie." Mrs. Willis, behind the silver coffee pot, smiled at her son. "Best rolls I ever ate, Winnie," he said appreciatively. "I'll bet if Mr. Greggs' wife could make rolls like these he'd be a sweeter-tempered carpenter. I'm going to have the finest of vacations and rest thoroughly by going everywhere with everybody. I'll watch you wade, Shirley; and I'll give Sarah my opinion of this remarkable pig; Rosemary and I will 'snap' the whole farm. But I wish it distinctly understood that Mother and I have an unbreakable engagement to take a drive every afternoon, or just after dinner, as she prefers." "And won't you have to go see any sick people at all?" demanded Shirley, almost upsetting her glass of milk in the excitement of having a brother with time to spare. "I left word with Mrs. Welles that I'd answer emergency calls, of course," explained Doctor Hugh, answering his mother's unspoken question. "I've arranged it so I won't have to go the hospital and, barring the unforeseen, I can count on a free fortnight. So we'll hope there won't be any sick people to go see, Shirley." "Where are you going, Rosemary?" the doctor hailed her as she and Sarah started down the lawn after breakfast was over. "We thought we'd go down and see Jack," called Rosemary. Doctor Hugh pushed open the screen door and came down the steps. "Let Jack get his bearings first," he advised. "There is bound to be a number of new experiences for him this initial day and I think it will be kinder to let him get adjusted to his job. He'll be up this evening and you and Mother can play for him and cheer him up generally." "Why--why--will he need cheering up?" Rosemary looked so startled that her brother laughed.