If she was asleep and didn't hear the scrimmage, we'll just leave her in peace about it." "Oh, is it as bad as that ?" said Terry.

"So bad that I am not to tell Gran'ma ?" "It is as bad as bad--as that it couldn't be badder!" cried Nurse Nancy.
"My gown and cap ruinated, my nursery spattered with mud, the back stairs like a street with clay an' rain, yourselves drenched an' drownded, an' your clothes spoiled.

And into the bargain," added Nancy, with a quaver in her voice, "my spectacles broken into smash, an' I without e'er another pair to see my way about the house with!" [Illustration] "Your spectacles!" cried Terry, now at last stricken with remorse.

"Oh, Nursey, do you really mean that your spectacles are broken ?" Nurse Nancy answered by holding up an empty rim from which all trace of glasses had departed.
Then Terry said no more, but crept meekly into her little bed, burrowed into the pillows, and wept..