Would the Baes take them if they were not? You know he
is one that cuts every centime in four pieces."
"Ah! sharp enough, sharp enough, that is true. But I am always afraid of
my eyes. I do not see the flags out there so well as I used to do."
"Because the sun is so bright, Annemie; that is all. I myself, when I
have been sitting all day in the place in the light, the flowers look
pale to me. And you know it is not age with _me_, Annemie?"
The old woman and the young girl laughed together at that droll idea.
"You have a merry heart, dear little one," said old Annemie. "The saints
keep it to you always."
"May I tidy the room a little?"
"To be sure, dear, and thank you too. I have not much time, you see; and
somehow my back aches badly when I stoop."
"And it is so damp here for you, over all that water!" said Bebee as she
swept and dusted and set to rights the tiny place, and put in a little
broken pot a few sprays of honeysuckle and rosemary that she had brought
with her. "It is so damp here. You should have come and lived in my hut
with me, Annemie, and sat out under the vine all day, and looked after
the chickens for me when I was in the town.
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