"Get on with what you did!" put in Miss Kezia.
"I'm tellin' you," obstinately, "I talked with him. And then he drove me here." With a sudden abrupt movement she slipped from the chair. "I'll go to bed now."
There were great dark rings round her eyes; Nell saw her shiver.
"Come on, then, Atom," Denis picked her up again. "I'll carry you up."
The small arms went with sudden desperate clinging round his neck; Sheila Pat pressed her cheek hard into his.
"She must be punished," said Miss Kezia. "She has been wandering about alone for more than three hours."
"We'll see about that to-morrow," Denis said.
Nell went towards the kitchen.
"Where are you going, Eileen?"
"To make her some hot bread and milk."