They really began to look fit for
double harness.
Joseph and his wife got their affairs in order, and
everything ready for migrating at the shortest notice; and they
felt so peaceful and happy that they judged all the trouble they
had gone through well worth enduring. As for Nanny, she had been
so happy ever since she left the hospital, that she expected
nothing better, and saw nothing attractive in the notion of the
country. At the same time, she had not the least idea of what
the word country meant, for she had never seen anything about
her but streets and gas-lamps. Besides, she was more attached to
Jim than to Diamond: Jim was a reasonable being, Diamond in her
eyes at best only an amiable, over-grown baby, whom no amount of
expostulation would ever bring to talk sense, not to say think
it. Now that she could manage the baby as well as he, she judged
herself altogether his superior. Towards his father and mother,
she was all they could wish.
Diamond had taken a great deal of pains and trouble to find
Jim, and had at last succeeded through the help of the tall
policeman, who was glad to renew his acquaintance with the
strange child. Jim had moved his quarters, and had not heard of
Nanny's illness till some time after she was taken to the
hospital, where he was too shy to go and inquire about her.
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