Here's your flute, Uncle Ray. If you'll play
along with Celia it will help out."
It was not so bad, after all. Lanse had chosen the most familiar of the
old music, everybody did his and her best, and Captain Rayburn's flute,
exquisitely played, did indeed "help out."
Celia, her cheeks very pink, worked away until Doctor Churchill gently
took her violin from her, but after that the music still went very well.
"Good! good!" applauded Doctor Forester. "Churchill, you're in luck to
live next door to this sort of thing."
"Now that I know what I live next door to," remarked the younger
physician, "I shall know what to prescribe for the entire family on
winter evenings."
There could be no question that Doctor Churchill also was enjoying the
evening. Helping Charlotte and the boys serve the sandwiches and
chocolate, which appeared presently--the chocolate being made by Mrs.
Fields in the kitchen--he said to the girl:
"I haven't had such a good time since I came away from my old home."
"It was so nice of Fieldsy to make the chocolate," Charlotte replied,
somewhat irrelevantly.
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