"Shall you bring her back to-night?" asked Mrs. Harding.
"I may keep her till to-morrow," said the nurse. "After seven years' absence her mother will think that short enough."
To this, Mrs. Harding agreed, though she felt that she should miss Ida, though absent but twenty-four hours.
CHAPTER XV
THE JOURNEY
The nurse walked as far as Broadway, holding Ida by the hand.
"Where are we going?" asked the child, timidly. "Are you going to walk all the way?"
"No," said the nurse; "not all the way—perhaps a mile. You can walk as far as that, can't you?"
"Oh, yes."