"Yes; there is some just right for you; see."
And so it was called from that time "Mamma's Basket."
[CHAPTER XVI.]
"THINE EYES SHALL SEE THE KING."
THE afternoon of that long and sorrowful day wore away slowly to Nellie.
She was sitting in the drawing room, Arthur and Tom being in the nursery, with some writing paper before her, but unable to begin the dreaded letter to her grandmamma, when, after a light tap, the door opened, and she looked up in the face of Christina.
Nellie threw herself into her arms and was strained in a close embrace, and she found it impossible longer to keep up the self-command which she had imposed upon herself all day.
Christina placed her on the sofa, and sat down by her side, only whispering, "Poor Nellie, what you must have gone through."