Then when my father had come to consult her about the queer state I seemed to be in, she had not felt surprised.

She had quite understood it all, though she had not said so to him, and she had resolved to try to win my confidence.

She told me too that she had found out from the old German about my buying the cup, whose reappearance she could not at first explain.
"'I went to his shop the very next morning,' she told me, 'to see if he still had the fellow to the cup I had bought, as I knew he had two of them, and he told me the other had been bought by a little girl.

Ten shillings was too much to give for it, Nelly, a great deal too much for you to give, and more than the cup was really worth.

It was not a very valuable cup, though the colour was so pretty that I was tempted to buy it to place among the others.' "'I don't mind about the money, grandmother,' I replied.