It Was the Nightingale (2014)
“Mules and Zillah, to fetch the baby.
Billy was immediately at home as, strapped in the tall chair that had been Phillip’s, he sat in the Mules’ kitchen, rattling an enamel mug on the tray before throwing it on the floor; whereupon Zillah picked it up and the game was repeated. The energetic and noisy Zillah never tired of playing the mug game with him, although Phillip once suggested that it might end in the baby learning to throw everything about when he grew up. At this Zillah became imme...diately possessive. “Whose baby be it? ’Tes I who looks after him, you know!”
She teased the baby, then reproved him when he cried out in a pet: but Phillip did not like to interfere. Soon he was having his meals alone, sitting at the circular table in the parlour, while repeated laughter came from the kitchen.
Having failed to compose a satisfactory reply to Mary Ogilvie’s letter, he decided to walk to the house on Sunday afternoon; but determination failed when he saw Mrs.MoreLess
Billy was immediately at home as, strapped in the tall chair that had been Phillip’s, he sat in the Mules’ kitchen, rattling an enamel mug on the tray before throwing it on the floor; whereupon Zillah picked it up and the game was repeated. The energetic and noisy Zillah never tired of playing the mug game with him, although Phillip once suggested that it might end in the baby learning to throw everything about when he grew up. At this Zillah became imme...diately possessive. “Whose baby be it? ’Tes I who looks after him, you know!”
She teased the baby, then reproved him when he cried out in a pet: but Phillip did not like to interfere. Soon he was having his meals alone, sitting at the circular table in the parlour, while repeated laughter came from the kitchen.
Having failed to compose a satisfactory reply to Mary Ogilvie’s letter, he decided to walk to the house on Sunday afternoon; but determination failed when he saw Mrs.MoreLess
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