3/32 Now either she has picked this up at school, or--the thought occurs to me--she has been loafing around the laundry, gossiping with the like of Mrs. This seems to me the better guess, because the women in the laundry are always at feud with the nurses; it's endemic there: and 'a nasty two-faced spy' smacks, though faintly, of the wash-tub. In my hearing Mrs.Clerihew has accused Nurse Branscome of 'carrying tales.' 'A nasty two-faced spy'-- the child was using those very words when we surprised her, and the Lord knows what worse before we happened on the scene." "Nurse Turner would not tell, and so we have no right to speculate." "That's true. |