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It seemed a long time till nurse came back again. We had finished our tea -- it was really rather a pretence one, as I said -- when we thought we heard her coming upstairs, and ran out to meet her.
It was her: she was coming up the big front staircase, for she still, as she told me afterwards, had a half-silly idea that _perhaps_ the two girls were still hiding somewhere in the drawing-rooms, and might be going to jump out to surprise her. When we looked over the balusters and saw it was nurse, we ran down to the first landing towards her.