She
thought the matter over, and had decided that nurse should have her
meals in the dining-room, so that the servants could not complain of
extra trouble, as they would only have to lay another place at the
table; but Mrs. Mobberly, who came in very opportunely in the midst of
her deliberations, dissuaded her from it.
"It is all very well now," she said, "while your aunt is so very ill
that you must of necessity be in her room whenever the nurse is away
having her meals, but we hope she will soon be so much better that there
will be no need for that, and you will sometimes find it awkward then to
keep nurse waiting till you have finished. No, you had much better
insist at once upon her meals being comfortably prepared for her
upstairs."
"But where can she have them? There is not even the tiniest sitting-room
upstairs, only the small bedroom which nurse uses for herself, and the
large one where I sleep."
"Then I think, if I were you, as yours is such a large, airy room, I
would have one of these small tables moved into it, and let nurse have
all her meals there. You will find she will prefer it to coming
downstairs, as it is near enough to the sick room to hear every sound,
and if you make a rule that your bedroom shall be put straight directly
you leave it in the morning, and the windows thrown wide open, it will
be quite fresh by the time she wants it.
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