"Three days, sir?" she echoed reproachfully. "To go abroad! May I ask you if you would be staying in a place like that all the winter, sir?"
"Yes, certainly through the winter—or probably so. It mightn't be so long; it depends."
"I could not undertake to leave 'ome for good, Sir," said the nurse. "I am engaged. My friend lives in 'Olloway, and——"
"Oh, it wouldn't be for good," declared Cynthia ingratiatingly; "we couldn't stay there for good ourselves—oh no! And, of course, if you found we stopped too long to suit you, Nurse, why, you could leave us when you liked, couldn't you? Though Mr. Kent and I would both be very sorry to lose you, I'm sure!" They looked at her pleadingly while she meditated.
"What Baby will do, Hi don't know, madam," she said; "changing his cow, poor little dear!"
"Will it hurt him?" demanded the mother and father, in a breath.
"If you have the doctor's consent, madam, you may chance it. It isn't a thing that Hi would ever advise."
"Well, well, look here," said Kent; "we'll see Dr. Roberts about it to-day, and if he says there's no risk, that'll settle it. You will get ready to start Thursday morning, Nurse."
"I will endeavour to do so, sir," she said with dignity.
They felt that on the whole she had been gracious. And Kent, having obtained Dr. Roberts' sanction to change the cow, commissioned a house-agent to try to let No. 64 furnished at four guineas a week.