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imploringly. She wanted to risk it, come what might,
but that was not his way, and if she confused him with
suggestions he had to begin at the beginning again.
There was the same excitement over John, and Michael
had even a narrower squeak; but both were kept, and
soon, you might have seen the three of them going in a
row
to
Miss
Fulsom's
Kindergarten
school,
accompanied by their nurse.
Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr.
Darling had a passion for being exactly like his
neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse. As they
were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children
drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called
Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until
the Darlings engaged her.
She had always thought children important, however,
and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in
Kensington Gardens. She proved to be quite a treasure
of a nurse. How thorough she was at bath-time, and up
at any moment of the night if one of her charges made
the slightest cry. Of course her kennel was in the
nursery. There is a room in the basement of Miss
Fulsom's school where the nurses wait. They sat on
forms, while Nana lay on the floor, but that was the
only difference.
There never was a simpler happier family until the
coming of Peter Pan.
