Our Little Lady

Excert from the bookAvice, one of the elder women in the book, tells the story of how shehad become a nursery-maid in the Royal Palace, first at Windsor, andthen later at Westminster. One of the princesses she had to look afterwas a most beautiful child, but had been born deaf and dumb. She hadvarious gestures with which she communicated, but the sadness was, thatthey never could teach her to pray. Yet they were sure she spoke toChrist in her own way. The poor child died young. This all took pla