In the drawer were a number of letters and some of them were tied up with blue ribbon.
Amongst them there was the miniature that Sedela had been talking about.
The Marquis saw at once that it was very well painted and he knew that there were several other portraits of him at different ages besides the one over the mantelpiece.
“Of course Nanny can have this,” he said. “I will pack it up and give it to her first thing in the morning.”
“I think she will have quite a lot of presents,” Sedela answered, “as everybody in the house is so fond of her. But yours will be the one that will delight her more than anything else.”
The Marquis found that Sedela had been right.
When he went up to see Nanny, there were at least a dozen parcels on the nursery table.
When she opened his, she gave a cry
