Mrs Charles Musgrove will, of course, wish to get back to her children; but if Anne will stay, no one so proper, so capable as Anne." She paused a moment to recover from the emotion of hearing herself so spoken of.

The other two warmly agreed with what he said, and she then appeared.
"You will stay, I am sure; you will stay and nurse her;" cried he, turning to her and speaking with a glow, and yet a gentleness, which seemed almost restoring the past.

She coloured deeply, and he recollected himself and moved away.

She expressed herself most willing, ready, happy to remain.

"It was what she had been thinking of, and wishing to be allowed to do.