Miss Danesbury’s gentle and kind face looked relieved.
“Thank you, Annie—of course I trust you, dear. Take the children at once to the meeting-place under the great oak, and wait there until Miss Good appears.”
Annie suddenly sprang forward, and threw her arms round Miss Danesbury’s neck.
“Miss Danesbury, you comfort me,” she said, in a kind of stifled voice, and then she ran off with the children.
Chapter Twenty Three.
“Humpty Dumpty Had A Great Fall.”
All the stupor and languor which immediately followed Nan’s fall passed off during her drive home; she chatted and laughed, her cheeks were flushed, her eyes bright. Hester turned with a relieved face to Miss Danesbury.
“My little darling is all right, is she not?” she said. “Oh, I was so terrified—oh, how thankful I am no harm has been done!”