Chapter Two‘I must have some money!’ Noella said to herself over and over again.
She wondered if she should look round the rest of the house.
It was quite useless for her to do so because already she had sold everything she could from her mother’s bedroom and from all the other rooms as well.
It was Nanny who had said that there was no point in keeping her Cousin Caroline and Noely’s clothes.
Noella had hesitated, however, before she had finally agreed.
“Perhaps they are – infectious,” she suggested.
“We’ve taken care of the rooms,” Nanny said, “but to make sure, I’ll put them outside in the air.”
It was the doctor who had said firmly that the rooms where Cousin Caroline and Noely had died had to be fumigated.
They were shut up and an evil-smelling disinfectant was burned in them a
