human
It'll do for my little Polly,
gpt
Break it to her, please, ma'am; I'm afraid.
human
Oh, Nurse, where _is_ my doll? I've left her in the train! Oh, Mother, please send to the station and ask them for her! Oh, Mother, how could Nurse forget her? Nurse, Nurse, are you sure you haven't got her? I heard you say you were afraid! I know you've left her behind! And thus Flora ran on--now accusing Nurse, now mourning the loss of her doll, now asking her mother to send for her--till her mother drew her calmly to herself, and said,
gpt
Flora, dear, do not blame Nurse for forgetting your doll when she had a hundred other things to think of. If you forgot her, don't accuse others of it. I am afraid my little girl forgot her Lady Daisy for many hours, too, in the train. Nurse tells me you left your dollie all alone when you got out of the train at B---- Station, and that Charlie and Baby Henry got hold of her, and pulled her very much about, so that she had to put the poor broken thing under the seat lest you should see it, and it would grieve you. She meant to act kindly to you, and it was hardly her fault if, when we got out, she should forget Lady Daisy was still there, since Lady Daisy's own mistress, my little Flora, never missed her at all; was it?
human
No, Mother, she whispered.
gpt
But I _did_ love her.
human
Then my little girl must be more thoughtful, said her mother;