She loved her father and her mother; she loved Olly with all her whole heart, though he was a tease, she loved her nurse, whom she and Olly called Nana, and who had been with them ever since Milly was born; and she loved Fraeulein, and was always begging flowers from her mother that she might take them to school for Fraeulein's table.

So you see Milly was made up of loving.

And she was a thoughtful little girl too, tidy with her dress, quick and quiet at her lessons, and always ready to sit still with her fairy-book or her doll, when mother was busy or tired.

But there were two things in which Milly was not at all sensible in spite of her sensible face.

She was much too ready to cry when any little thing went wrong, and she was dreadfully afraid of creatures of all sorts.