Christmas Day, 3 P.M.
Victoria will stay there with the children , and he go back and forwards . If Harry and Phyllis May should come home , I suppose their headquarters will be at Stoneborough ; but still this would be the best place for a family gathering . Moreover , Fergus gets on very nicely at Mrs. Edgar 's , and it would be a pity to disturb him . On the other hand , I am not sure of the influences of the place upon the -- ` Christmas Day , 3 P.M. -- There came the Waits I suppose , and Jane had to stop and leave me to take up the thread . Poor dear Jenny , the festival days are no days of rest to her , but I am not sure that she would enjoy repose , or that it would not be the worse possible penance to her . She is gone down now to the workhouse with Valetta to take cards and tea and tobacco to the old people , not sending them , because she says a few personal wishes and the sight of a bright child will be worth something to the old bodies . Then comes tea for the choir-boys , before Evensong and carols , and after that my turn may come for what remains of the evening .