It did seem to me that life was just too lovely to-- Then came the winter.

One day I was standing a watch in the nursery.
That is to say, I was asleep on the bed.

The baby was asleep in the crib, which was alongside the bed, on the side next the fireplace.

It was the kind of crib that has a lofty tent over it made of gauzy stuff that you can see through.

The nurse was out, and we two sleepers were alone.