Jill would not answer till she had extricated herself from his clutches. Then she sat up and tossed her long hair back from her flushed little face.
"We're to have a governess!"
"Hurray!" shouted Jack. "Good-bye to nurses, who are rotten rot!"
"And I've seen her," pursued Jill, shaking her head mournfully; "and I was rude to her, I told her I hated her, and she'll never forgive me. Mona was so cross, and then I was, and of course the governess will hate me back, and we'll fight from the very beginning!"
"What was she like?" demanded Jack.
"Like any other person," said Jill crossly.
"Is she coming to tea?" asked Bumps with round eyes.
Jill looked at her small sister scornfully.
"She's coming to breakfast, and dinner, and tea, for ever and ever; she's just like a nurse, only it will be lessons all day long, and punishments."