Excerpt from Diana, Vol. 3 of 3 'I can't think what has come over them!' she said. 'Oh, they are only shy, the foolish monkeys, ' explained Mrs. Fielding excusingly. 'They have been talking of nothing but your coming for the last week, so you must not think that they are not glad to see you.' 'Dick, ' cried Diana straightway, 'are you glad to see me?' Upon which - 'H-m-m, ' growled Dick inarticulately. 'I don't know what "H-m-m" means. Good gracious, children, come here! What's the matter with you?' exclaimed Diana. And then at last they came, sheepishly, with a foolish smirk on the girls' faces. 'You look so odd, ' said Milly in self-excuse, venturing at last to speak. 'Look so odd!' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.