"
"Drink up your beef-tea, missy," said Hannah. "Please, Mr. Noel, sir,
will you hold the cup for little miss? Oh, my heart alive, what--what
is that?"
"I don't see anything," said Noel, "what has frightened you, Hannah?"
But Hannah had grown white, and looked very queer, and a moment after
she hurried out of the room.
"I never knew your servant was nervous," said Noel to Daisy.
"Nervous?" she repeated, laughing merrily. "Is it Hannah? why she
always says she hasn't a nerve in her whole body. She's sometimes
almost cross with me for being nervous, Mr. Prince."
Noel stayed some little time longer with the sisters, and then
returned to Rosebury in time to catch the evening train to London.
When he got there he went straight to Mrs. Ellsworthy's house. That
little lady was anxiously expecting him, and plied him with many
questions on the spot.
"How is she taking it, Arthur?" she asked. "I have been forming and
maturing my plans, and I now think a resident governess at Shortlands
would be the nicest arrangement for the girls. They cannot be parted,
that is very evident, and as Primrose must be more than eighteen she
would not care to go to school.
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