Mr.Nowell would in all probability appear in good time to relieve me from the responsibility, but in the mean while that poor soul upstairs was not to be distressed.

I begged that she might know nothing of this undertaking on my part.
"It was not long after this when our daily meetings on the cliff came to an end.

Mild as the weather was by this time, Mrs.Nowell's doctor had forbidden her going out any longer.

I knew that she had no maid to send out with the child, so I sent the servant up to ask her if she would trust the little one for a daily walk with me.

This she was very pleased to do, and Marian became my dear little companion every afternoon.