118 LITTLE TRUDY'S BLUE FLOWERS 



your letters in the post? I see you have a num- 

 ber ready." 



Afterward, when Grandmother and I were 

 alone, I said : " Perhaps people are more like 

 bees than they are like flowers. Professor Bonn 

 comes to drink your tea and eat cake, and when 

 he goes away he carries your letters to the post. 

 It's very much like Master Bee going to sip nectar 

 and taking away the golden dust." 



" Matters of courtesy," Grandmother said, and 

 then she laughed. 



