It was just before the noise you made falling down into this hole." Out! I was sorry; I wanted to disburden myself at once.
"Well, leave everything as it is," I commanded, despite the rebellion in Nixon's eye.

"I will wait in the reception-room till she returns and then tell her at once.

She can blame nobody but me, if she is displeased at what she sees." Nixon grumbled something and moved off.

The girls, full of talk, ran up-stairs to have it out in the nursery with Letty, and I went toward the front.

How long I should have to stay there before Mrs.Packard's return I did not know.