Another visit to Aunt Maria was out of the question.

Even if London had been a suitable place, the fear of infection for my cousins made it not to be thought of.
"Where would _you_ like to go, Nurse ?" I inquired one evening, as we all sat in the boudoir discussing the topic of the day.
"I should like to go wherever it's best for your good health, Master Reginald," was Nurse Bundle's answer, which, though admirable in its spirit, did not further the settlement of the matter we found it so difficult to decide.
"But where would you like to go for yourself ?" I persisted.

"Where would you go if it was you going away, and nobody else ?" "Well, my dear, if it was me just going away for myself, I think I should go to my sister's at Oakford." This reply drew from me a catechism of questions about Oakford, and Nurse Bundle's sister, and Nurse Bundle's sister's husband, and their children; and when my father came to sit with me I had a long history of Oakford and Nurse Bundle's relatives at my fingers' ends, and was full of a new fancy, which was strong upon me, to go and stay for awhile at Oakford with Mr.and Mrs.Benjamin Buckle.
"Nurse says they sometimes let lodgings," I said; "and I should like Nurse to see her sister; and," I candidly added, "I should like to see her myself." My father's uppermost wish was to please me; and as Oakford was known to be healthy, and the doctor favoured the proposition, it was decided according to my wishes.

If we stayed long, my father was to go backwards and forwards, and he was to fetch us when we went away.

His anxiety was still so great, and led him to watch me in a manner which fidgeted me so much, that I think the doctor was only too glad that the place should be sufficiently near to induce him to leave me to the care of Nurse Bundle.
We went by coach to Oakford.