Things began to change then." "Right then, so you could see them ?" I wanted to know.
Nurse Sarah shrugged her shoulders again.
"Oh, la! child, what a little question-box you are, an' no mistake," she sighed.

But she didn't look mad--not like the way she does when I ask why she can take her teeth out and most of her hair off and I can't; and things like that.

(As if I didn't know! What does she take me for--a child ?) She didn't even look displeased--Nurse Sarah _loves_ to talk.

(As if I didn't know that, too!) She just threw that quick look of hers over her shoulder and settled back contentedly in her chair.

I knew then I should get the whole story.