"About her giving her nice, lovely dinner to the dying woman."
"It was like her," said nurse.
"Did you know my granny, nurse?"
"Know her?" exclaimed nurse. "Rather! There weren't her like anywhere to be found. She was always too good for——"
Nurse drew herself up abruptly. She had meant to say, "Too good for the present Mrs. Mitford," but she restrained herself.
"There wasn't her like in God's world," she continued. "Dear, it were a sorrowful day when she died."
"Was she very old?" asked Christian.
"No, lovey, not specially—a little past sixty."
"That sounds very old," exclaimed Christian.