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Just fancy sowing flower-seeds and watching them growing every day, and having our own vegetables! We could have salad every evening in the summer, and lettuces freshly picked from a dear little bed! urged Eva. Vava listened with growing enthusiasm. 'It would be almost like home again. I have grown radishes in my little garden, because nursie liked them for tea.
"Have you forgotten Clare, Maly? Clare that used to carry you about all day long?" "Yes; I have forgotten you. You're a dirty, ragged beggar-boy! You're a bad boy! Boys with holes in their clothes are bad boys. Nursie told me so, and she knows everything! She told me herself she knew everything!"
'And why will they be hungry, when they are eating their breakfasts quite comfortably? inquired the good woman quietly. 'That is good of you, nursie; but you must not wait upon us strong people! protested Stella. 'That's only for to-day, because you are all just worn-out, and I knew you would oversleep yourselves.
'But you know, nursie, this is a business letter, and he is the man she gets her living by; she really might be civil to him. Suppose he gets offended and tells her to go? That would be a nice thing, just after we have got into a new house! exclaimed Vava.
'But, nursie, Stella had said, 'we want you at Lomore; your rooms are there waiting for you, and why should you stay down here away from your home when there is no need? 'There is need, Miss Stella; they need me, and I could not leave them just now.
The hut leader seizes his opportunity, announces prayers, and the men, choking down their giggles over nursie, find themselves singing "When I survey the wondrous cross." My own impression is that prayers cannot with decency follow hard on a Y.M.C.A. concert. The mind and soul sides of the red triangle seem to join at an angle which is particularly aggressive.
Evidently she had forgiven her sister the surprise she had given her on that eventful breaking-up day, for she looked the picture of happiness. 'And do you think I'm going to cook in a silk gown, whatever the day? No, indeed! it's safely packed away, as yours ought to be, young leddies! 'We are going back to the workaday world to-morrow, nursie; let us stop in fairyland for to-day, said Eva.
It was an odd sight, and one of them, whose name was Marway, thought to get some fun out of the phenomenon. "Here!" he cried, "I want my boots brushed." Clare rose to his feet, saying, "Brush the gentleman's boots. I will finish yours after, and then you shall finish mine." "Hullo, Nursie! it's you turned boot-black, is it?
'I've been up a long way to see my very great, huge, old grandmother, said the princess. 'What do you mean by that? asked the nurse, who thought she was making fun. 'I mean that I've been a long way up and up to see My GREAT grandmother. Ah, nursie, you don't know what a beautiful mother of grandmothers I've got upstairs.
Hackney for ordering the coals and the gasman, said Stella. 'You'd better say for all she has done, for she met me at the station, and brought me across London herself, or I doubt if I'd ever have got here; it fairly bewildered me, said their old nurse. 'When did you come, nursie? inquired Vava. 'On Wednesday.
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