With a crash of machinery he brought the big blue car to a stop
That beautiful, little golden-haired, smiling thing, so full of life! But it was all right now. She was smiling still, as if she did not guess the deadly peril she had just escaped.
"Don't you know, little one," he asked gently, "that it's very dangerous to run in front of automobiles?"
"Oh, but I wanted so much to stop you," said Rosemary.
"Why, do you know me?" And the young man smiled such a pleasant smile, with a gleam of white teeth, that the child was more than ever sure she had done right.
"Yes, I know you by 'eavensenthinstinct." She got out the long word with a gasp or two; but it was a great success. She had not mixed up a single syllable.
The young man burst out laughing. "Where's your nurse?" he asked.
"In London," said Rosemary. "She isn't my nurse any more."
"Well, your mother—"
"She isn't—"