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"I shan’t change," Philippa said, shocked "Nursemaids don’t eat in company"

"Nursemaids don’t call their mistresses Kate, so you are obviously an exception"

"What about the baby?" Philippa asked "I wouldn’t want to leave him"

"He will be with us, of course," Kate said "I don’t like to have hiht" And with a last touch of Jonas’s nose, she went out the door

Chapter Four

Three hours later, Philippa was reconsidering her chosen profession It see Jonas had woken, cried for an hour or so, taken soain, and cried again--but had fallen back to sleep just when she’d been trying to decide whether he was hungry

She unpacked her tiny bag in the roo one of Jonas’s quiet spells, brushed and rebrushed her hair, thinking all the while about Mr Berwick Wick, the princess had called hiiving him what he wanted

That had to be because he was a butler He didn’t seem like a butler

Jonas whimpered from the nursery, and she hastily pinned up her hair and went back into the rooht her uncle would be quite pleased with the way the baby now looked The pinched look was gone, which meant that he had some water in him What he needed noas more milk And when she didn’t instantly produce it, he started crying again

"I’ to hurt your tuht blanket and wondered what to do She hadn’t the faintest idea how to find the dining room By the time she opened the door and headed into the corridor, Jonas ailing so vociferously that his face was purple

A tall, yellow-haired footoodness What’s your name?" she asked over Jonas’s sobs

"William, miss," he said "Mr Berwick said I was to escort you to the dining roo, isn’t it?"

"Huge," Willia the linens round about, well, you wouldn’t countenance it"

They allery, down thedown by the servants’ stairs?" she asked

He glanced at her "Not you, miss"

Philippa didn’t know quite what to say to that, so she jiggled Jonas against her shoulder--which had no effect whatsoever on his wails--and followed Willia room

When she entered the room, she was very relieved to find that it wasn’t a cavernous formal space but a tidy little room with a table set for six What’s more, Kate was the only person in it She rose the moment the door opened and hurried toward them "I wanted to come to the nursery, but my foolish husband forced me to wait for you here instead How is he?"

"Just fine," Philippa said "He’s hungry, as you can hear, but I think he feels a little better"

Kate cocked her head "You can hear a difference?"