LAST DAYS AT RAVENSNEST On Friday morning the children and their father trudged up very early to the farm to get news of Becky.

She had had a bad night Mr.Backhouse said, but she had taken some milk and beef-tea; she knew her father and mother quite well, and she had asked twice for Tiza.

The doctor said they must just be patient.

Quiet and rest would make her well again, and nothing else, and Tiza was not to go home for a day or two.
As for poor Tiza, a long sleep had cheered her up greatly, and when Milly and Olly went to take her out with them after breakfast, they found her almost as merry and chatty as usual.

But she didn't like being kept at the Wheelers's, though they were very kind to her; and it was all Mrs.Wheeler could do to prevent her from slipping up to the farm unknown to anybody.
"They don't have porridge for breakfast," said Tiza, tossing her head, when she and Milly were out together.