Susan had been the first--that was all.
He had just laid his bridge in place, and put Mr.and Mrs.Noah in the chief square to represent the inhabitants, and was standing rapt in admiration of his work, when a hard hand on each of his shoulders made him start and scream.
It was the nurse.

She had come back a day sooner than any one expected her.

The brother had brought home a wife, and she and the nurse had not liked each other; so she was very cross, and she took Philip by the shoulders and shook him, a thing which had never happened to him before.
'You naughty, wicked boy!' she said, still shaking.
'But I haven't hurt anything--I'll put everything back,' he said, trembling and very pale.
'You'll not touch any of it again,' said the nurse.

'I'll see to that.

I shall put everything away myself in the morning.