Past the fringe of the curtain, and behind it too, her soft bright eyes were a-looking here and there for the first to come in of her children.

The Lord only knows what lies I told her, so as to be satisfied without them.

First I said they were all gone for a walk; and then that the doctor had ordered them away; and then that they had got the measles.

That last she believed, because it was worse than what I had said before of them; and she begged to see Dr.
Diggory about it, and I promised that she should as soon as he had done his dinner.

And then, with a little sigh, being very weak, she went down into her nest again, with only you to keep her company.
"Well, that was bad enough, as any mortal sufferer might have said; enough for one day at any rate.