“They want to see Mr. Pott?” said this nurse, who was called Miss Mantin.
“I don’t know who they are, but they brought some fruit and flowers. I’ll take care of the basket,” said the first nurse, glancing at the second nurse and picking up one of the green apples.
“Yes, put the fruit away for him. He couldn’t eat it just now, for he had some lunch only a little while ago,” Miss Mantin said to Bunny and Sue. “But the flowers can go right up to his bedside. He will like to look at them. And now, whose children are you? Is Mr. Pott your father?”
“Oh, no!” exclaimed Sue.
“I’m Bunny Brown and this is my sister Sue,” explained the little boy.
“Oh, yes, now I remember. It was from your house that Mr. Pott was brought here,” said the second nurse, Miss Mantin, who was in charge of the hospital. “Well, I think you can see Mr. Pott for just a few moments. He is very ill and not altogether right in his head. Sometimes he wanders in his talk. But he may know you when he sees you. Come along.”
“Shouldn’t we give him the apples and flowers?” asked Sue.
“Miss Wilson, the nurse you met first, will attend to that,” said the manager, and she smiled a little.
“Has Mr. Pott’s son Harry come to see him yet?” asked Bunny, as he and his sister followed the manager along the clean halls.
“No one has been to see him yet except the doctor,” was the answer. “I didn’t know he had a son Harry.”