"Can you send a message directly?" she panted.
"Oh yes," said the girl, calmly. "Will you write it down?"
"I can't write now," said Nurse, in agitation "Say, 'Come at once; Eustace and Eliza lost.'" The girl looked up as she finished pencilling down this message.
"Do you know which way they have gone?" she asked.
"To some place called Prawn Point," answered Nurse.
"Ah, that is a nasty place," said the girl. "You haven't told me the address," she added, as Nurse was turning away from the counter.
She gave the address where the Vicar was staying, and returned home almost distracted, but was relieved to hear that the landlady's son had started in search of the children, and that he expected he should find them on the other side of the Point, where they would be compelled to stay until the tide went down.
"Oh dear, they will be frightened to death, even if they are alive!" said Nurse, wringing her hands, and pacing up and down the small sitting-room.
In the course of an hour a reply came from the Vicar.
"Coming first train in the morning," he said.