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But when father is out of work we only has bread." Patience turned pale, and Thomas groaned. Jessie looked up with quick sympathy. "Have you hurted your toof, granp?" she asked gravely, little dreaming that it was she herself who had given him pain. "No, my dear, granp's all right. Try and make a good breakfast now. You've got to get as plump and round as the kitten over there."
At last, though, the little tongue grew quiet, the dark curly head fell back on granp's shoulder, and then the bright eyes closed. "I reckon I'd best carry her right up to bed," said Thomas softly. "If I hand her over to you she'll waken, as sure as anything." Patience only nodded, she could not speak, her heart was so full, and rising she followed him up the stairs, carrying the lamp.
With granp's big hand holding hers so closely she could not feel that no one heard or cared, and the day looked all bright and sunny again. She felt sorry when her grandfather mounted into the little cart to drive home, and she almost wished she was going with him; but granny, taking her by the hand, led her quickly down the street and into a draper's shop.
Jessie sprang to her feet. "I think yours is such a pretty room," she said half timidly; and then her eye falling on a rose-bush in Miss Patch's window, all her timidity vanished, and she sprang towards it with a cry of mingled pleasure and pain. "Oh, you have a rose-bush, too!" she cried eagerly. "I had one at granp's, and I loved it so."
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