It was one of Noel's questions that Nurse could not answer.
He went on:
"I'm sure He doesn't, because everybody in the world is happy on Chris'mas Day and that's His birfday, and He likes to see us happy, doesn't He?"
"Yes," said Nurse.
"And the next birfday in our family will be His birfday and mine," said Noel with intense satisfaction in his tone.
A few days after, Chris had the joy of seeing his school chum. He called in a car in the morning and took Chris off to spend a long day with him. And Chris enjoyed it all the more, because of his previous disappointment.
The holidays slipped away very fast, and soon school and lessons began again.
The next event was Miss Constance's wedding in London. Noel went up to it, as he was to be her page; and as Mrs. Inglefield was asked, too, she took Diana up as well, and they all stayed with Granny for the occasion.
Granny rather wondered at Noel's being asked to the wedding.
"I should have thought Diana would have made a pretty little bridesmaid. Why did she fix upon him?"