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In spite of Vava's disappointment at not having 'nursie' at No. 2 Heather Road, she found herself counting the days until they moved. Nor was Eva less enthusiastic. Indeed, her enthusiasm went rather too far; she was always buying something or other 'for her bedroom.
At the moment she was thinking that Eva seemed to have got over her trouble, and to feel as if it were undone the moment the money was paid; but, as it happened, she was mistaken, and when she saw her come in night after night, looking tired out and black under the eyes, she began to understand that 'old nursie' was right, and that one cannot undo a wrong deed.
She pushed Alice aside without knowing that she touched her. In a twinkling she was at the nursery door; in a twinkling she was kneeling by the empty cot, and clasping the little frilled pillow on which baby's head used to rest passionately to her lips. "It's true, then!" she gasped, at last. "I know now what David meant; I know now why he warned me. Oh Nursie! Nursie! it's my fault!"
Grace had been looking at the speaker with troubled eyes as she listened to her remonstrance, and now she said, meditatively, "Does old Adam really say so, Margery?" Then with a quick gesture she turned to go down the steps, adding cheerily, "Well, there's no harm in trying, and as for the wind, that doesn't matter a bit. It's what Walter would call a nice breezy day. I'm really going, nursie.
When the nurse saw it, she started and shook, and catching hold of the princess's hand turned and began to run down the hill. 'What's all the haste, nursie? asked Irene, running alongside of her. 'We must not be out a moment longer. 'But we can't help being out a good many moments longer. It was too true. The nurse almost cried. They were much too far from home.
Mrs. Morrison smiled at her; they all called her nursie now, even Doreen had been allowed this privilege, and that was not the only privilege she had been allowed, for, to her amazement, she had been invited to be a bridesmaid to her goddess of beauty at the quiet wedding at a West-End church.
'But that wasn't the worst, nursie; the worst was in Miss Upjohn's room, declared the girl. 'But I thought she had the sense to believe in you? asked the old woman. 'Oh yes, she was most awfully nice, and told me she had never doubted me for a moment; it was Miss Briggs that made me feel so horrid and uncomfortable.
"But you would like to play to dear father, and to learn all sorts of pretty hymns to say to him, would you not, my darling! There are many things you will have to know before you are a woman." "I don't mean to be a woman ever, I think," observed Flurry; "I like being a child better. Nursie is a woman, and nursie won't play; she says she is old and stupid." A happy inspiration came to me.
I expect nursie or David wrote and told them! exclaimed Vava. 'It is very kind, repeated Stella in the same constrained voice. Seeing that the two sisters were agitated at sight of the familiar objects, Amy and Eva, with tact, went upstairs to look at the latter's suite, and give them time to recover themselves. 'Kind! of course it is. What is the matter, Stella?
Mademoiselle hasn't had any attention paid to her for more days than our hero likes to confess." "I wish you wouldn't always call yourself 'our hero', said Jimmy; "you aren't mine, anyhow." "You're both of you mine," said Kathleen hastily. "Good little girl." Gerald smiled annoyingly. "Keep baby brother in a good temper till Nursie comes back." "You're not going out without us?"
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