"Oh, you might see your sister sometimes; not very often, of course; but you would be allowed to see her occasionally."
Bert shook his head.
"And when I grew big enough he would send me over the sea, wouldn't he?" he asked.
"I daresay he would send you to Canada, and a grand thing it would be for you."
"Where's Canada?" asked Bert. "It's further off than Hampshire, ain't it?"
The nurse smiled. "Oh yes, a great deal farther off."
Bert shook his head again, still more decidedly.
"Then I won't go," he said. "No Dr. Barnardo for me. I wouldn't leave Prin for the world. I promised father I'd always be good to her, and it wouldn't be keepin' my promise to go off to the other side of the sea."
And his mind was not to be changed by anything the nurse could say. She had no time to waste in useless persuasions.
"Now you must bid your brother good-bye," she said to Prin; "it is time we started."