Nurse took it, put on her spectacles, and read the words underneath:
"I don't like earth, I want heaven!"
"You see how good she is," put in Daffy persuasively.
Nurse gave a kind of grunt. Bertie, who had been silently listening to the conversation, now spoke.
"Me see, Nurse; me see the 'lickle girl."
"There, my lambkin, look!"
Nurse held it out to him with softened voice.
"I'll say this much, he's a clever painter. He'll be Captain Arnold, that took the Dower House some years back."
"What's the Dower House? And why has it a gate into our garden?"
"Why, it belongs to your father, of course. His mother lived and died there—your grandmother that was; but as it won't be wanted for a long time yet 'twas let. There was a Miss Arnold; your mother visited her."