Cherry looked up brightly.
"Oh, yes, mother-Meg; of course I should like to see the green fields, but I couldn't leave the doctor's anyhow; so if you could take me ever so, I couldn't go."
"No," said Meg; "but I should not wish you to think I'd forgot you, dear."
Just then Mrs. Blunt tapped at the door, and came in with her pleasant face.
"Here I am, Mrs. Seymour; did ye expect me afore?"
"I was so busy that I hardly knew the time," answered Meg; "but I hope it isn't inconvenient to you to come?"
"Not a bit of it! Why, I'm pleased, I'm sure, as you want me. It's nice to be wanted, ye know, sometimes."
"I expect you're often wanted," smiled Meg.
She shook her head, smiling too.
"More of late than I used to be," she said. "But now what is it you want me to do?"