The Little Colonel at Boarding-School

Excerpt from The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
Then he noticed that every hammock and garden chair had disappeared from the lawn. Not even the usual trail of magazines and palm-leaf fans was left on the grass, to Show that somebody had been Spending a comfortable hour in the shade. Usually at this time in the afternoon there was a flutter Of ribbons and white dresses somewhere back among the trees; but the place was deserted now. The wicker tea-table was gone from its corner on the piazza. The rugs and cushions which had filled the cosy corners behind the vines were packed away. The lace curtains were down in the long drawing room, and, peering through the windows which Opened to the floor, he saw a coloured man, busily shrouding the handsome old furniture in linen covers.
What's the matter, Alec? Asked Rob. What has become of everybody?
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