What little interest he had ever taken in the thing declined perceptibly with autumn, when he became too deeply engrossed with the revolutions taking place in his sad little body to care much for anything that went on outside it.
Hitherto he had not had to suffer from the neglect of servants.

He was so delicate from his birth that his mother had been strongly advised to keep on the trained nurse till he was a year old.

But Mrs.Nevill Tyson knew better than that.

For some reason she had taken a dislike to her trained nurse; perhaps she was a little bit afraid of the professional severity which had so often held in check her fits of hysterical passion.

Aided by Mrs.Wilcox and her own intuitions, after rejecting a dozen candidates on the ground of youth and frivolity, she chose a woman with calm blue eyes and a manner that inspired confidence.