Painter's, and returned triumphant with the Three Fates.
During the days that followed it seemed to Alice that there were marshaled in invisible array all the gods of antiquity—the elephant-faced god of India and the rat-faced god of Egypt. The Witch of Endor, helped by the Irish fairies—in which Sara had a "corner,"—would rout the Aztec deities of which Robert had possessed himself. They marshaled them from the north and from the east. A motley company stalked ceaselessly through the children's conversation, while Robert encouraged Sara to brood over the loss of her lucky stone.
Nor did it comfort Alice at all that Tom explained to her that this was fine training in mythology. With this her Mother-in-law disagreed.
"Even if the gods of which the children talk," she proclaimed, "are heathen and obsolete, this kind of goings-on will make them too familiar with the Deity. Moreover, this house is getting positively spooky."
