“Miss Leslie shall come and fetch you in the pony-cart, Nannie,” she said.
“I’ll write and tell Octavia all about you,” said Lydia. “She’s engaged to an awfully nice clergyman called Tommy Needham, but they don’t mean to get married till the war is over.”
Nannie said she had no patience with that sort of nonsense, but when informed by Lydia that Mr. Needham was in Africa, relented and said she supposed what couldn’t be cured must be endured, and to give Miss Octavia her love and to remember her respectfully to Mrs. Crawley.
“How good you were with Nannie,” said Lady Waring as they walked quickly homewards by the short way.
Lydia said she liked her awfully and it was great fun.
“It’s lucky that we did not get onto the subject of Leslie,” said Lady Waring. “I think she was Nannie’s pet
