Well, after a lot of talking, and papa losing one train, it was arranged
that we should remain in the city with nurse until we heard from Miss
Marston, and knew how long she'd be likely to stay in Canada. If only a
short time,--say ten days,--we were to wait for her return and go under
her care to the Cottage; but if she'd be gone several weeks, then Phil,
Felix, and nurse would take us to the country. As soon as this was
settled, papa, Nannie, and Max went off, and a little later Miss Marston
started for her train.
Besides being worried about her aunt, Miss Marston felt real sorry at
leaving us so hurriedly, and she gave no end of directions to Nora and
Betty, to say nothing of nurse. Nora didn't seem to mind this, but nurse
sniffed--she always does that when she doesn't like what people are
telling her--and Betty got impatient; you see Nannie'd been drilling
Betty, too,--telling her to be nice to Nora, and to help with the
little ones, and all that,--and I guess she'd got tired of being
told things.
"I know just how Phil feels about papa's snubbing," she said to me.
"Some people never seem to realise that we're growing up.
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