24/36 And we HAVE got our hearts' desire.' 'But I don't understand about the letter,' Nurse was saying. 'I haven't HAD no letter.' 'OH!' said Jane in a queer voice, 'I wonder whether it was one of those... they came that night--you know, when we were playing "devil in the dark"-- and I put them in the hat-stand drawer, behind the clothes-brushes and'-- she pulled out the drawer as she spoke--'and here they are!' There was a letter for Nurse and one for the children. The letters told how Father had done being a war-correspondent and was coming home; and how Mother and The Lamb were going to meet him in Italy and all come home together; and how The Lamb and Mother were quite well; and how a telegram would be sent to tell the day and the hour of their home-coming. 'I declare if it's not too bad of You, Miss Jane. |