Chapter 3Iola woke with a start thinking that she had heard a noise and then she remembered where she was and thought that it must be very early in the morning.
She sat up and lit the candle beside her bed and saw from her watch that it was just after half past five.
This meant, she thought, that Nanny would be getting up and she decided that she would get up too, as she wished to spend every second that she could with her before she left.
Last night they had sat talking for a long time and finally, because she had pressed her and pressed her, Nanny had conceded that she would ask Sir Wolfe Renton if he would consider employing a Nursery Governess for his daughter.
“You’ll have me out of a job, that’s what you’ll do!” Nanny asserted, but she was smiling and Iola knew that she was prote
