2/25 Nurse and Milly always left him alone till he was quite woke up. It made him cross if you began to talk to him too soon. Aren't you ?" "Wait till you see them, Master Olly," said nurse, taking him up and kissing him, "perhaps your little legs won't find it quite so easy to climb up the mountains as you think." "I can climb up three, four, six, seven mountains," said Olly stoutly; "mountains aren't a bit hard. Mother says they're meant to climb up." "Well, I suppose it's like going up stairs a long way," said Milly, thoughtfully, pulling on her stockings. "You didn't like going up the stairs in Auntie Margaret's house, Olly." Auntie Margaret's house was a tall London house, with ever so many stairs. |