Chapter 5Dipa seemed a little feverish and Carina put him into bed, where he fell asleep immediately.
She began to search through her luggage for a thermometer and then remembered that she had always used Nanny’s and had never had one of her own.
She decided to ask Mrs. Barnstaple if she could lend her one and, shutting the door of the night nursery quietly behind her, she went along the passage in search of the housekeeper’s room.
Carina could have rung the bell, but she thought that anyone coming into the night nursery might wake Dipa. And also she felt a little embarrassed at summoning the servants to the top floor even though her request was a reasonable one.
She could already sense a little tinge of resentment in the housemaids’ voices and manner when they waited on her. It was so
