Her ill-temper and discomfort did not trouble her after that. She forgot it utterly; for here she found the nurse with her sister's beautiful baby, and every trace of annoyance vanished at the sight. Here her sister found her in a little while. She had come in search of her, intending to speak a few serious words to her about her foolish conduct. But when she saw the girl's bright face as she kneeled on the grass, clasping and kissing the pretty boy, she too forgot her vexation. "O Caroline I was there ever so lovely a child before? How happy you must be?" And then she wondered over him--his beauty, his murmuring and cooing, and pretty baby ways, and her delight was perfect, when he refused to go to his mother from her arms. Was there ever such a triumph? The baby was a very pretty baby, and the young girl's delight over him was pretty too, and in the midst of it Dixen came for her, and Mrs Brandon had no time for the serious words which she felt it to be her duty to speak, "for poor papa's sake." But she set her conscience at rest by saying all the more to papa himself, and the immediate result of her advice was that Tessie was sent at once back to Mrs Glencairn's, and Frederica was advised to prepare herself to be sent elsewhere very soon. Poor Tessie thought it rather hard that she should be made to suffer for Fred's faults. That was the way she put the matter to herself, but it was a very good thing for her to be sent to school again. She begged hard to go with her sister, wherever she should be sent, but this could not be; and her dissatisfaction did not continue long after she was fairly back at school, for Mrs Glencairn's house was a very good place to be in, and Tessie was reasonable, and by-and-by content. As for Frederica, it would have been as well for her if she had been sent to Mrs Glencairn's too, for she and her mother and Selina made themselves unhappy in their uncertainty as to where she was to be sent. But when week after week passed, and nothing more was said on the subject, they began to take courage again, and to hope that she might not be sent away at all. And she was not, but it would have been much better for her if she had.