`` Now do n't interrupt , '' he would beg of her . `` I have one pound seventeen here , and two and six at the office ; I can cut off my coffee at the office , say ten shillings , making two nine and six , with your eighteen and three makes three nine seven , with five naught naught in my cheque-book makes eight nine seven -- who is that moving ? -- eight nine seven , dot and carry seven -- do n't speak , my own -- and the pound you lent to that man who came to the door -- quiet , child -- dot and carry child -- there , you 've done it ! -- did I say nine nine seven ? yes , I said nine nine seven ; the question is , can we try it for a year on nine nine seven ? '' `` Of course we can , George , '' she cried . But she was prejudiced in Wendy 's favour , and he was really the grander character of the two . `` Remember mumps , '' he warned her almost threateningly , and off he went again . `` Mumps one pound , that is what I have put down , but I daresay it will be more like thirty shillings -- do n't speak -- measles one five , German measles half a guinea , makes two fifteen six -- do n't waggle your finger -- whooping-cough , say fifteen shillings '' -- and so on it went , and it added up differently each time ; but at last Wendy just got through , with mumps reduced to twelve six , and the two kinds of measles treated as one . There was the same excitement over John , and Michael had even a narrower squeak ; but both were kept , and soon , you might have seen the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom 's Kindergarten school , accompanied by their nurse . Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so , and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours ; so , of course , they had a nurse . As they were poor , owing to the amount of milk the children drank , this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog , called Nana , who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her . She had always thought children important , however , and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens , where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators , and was much hated by careless nursemaids , whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses . She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse . How thorough she was at bath-time , and up at any moment of the night if one of her charges made the slightest cry . Of course her kennel was in the nursery . She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking around your throat . She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf , and made sounds of contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs , and so on . It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to school , walking sedately by their side when they were well behaved , and butting them back into line if they strayed . On John 's footer -LSB- in England soccer was called football , `` footer '' for short -RSB- days she never once forgot his sweater , and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain .
There is a room in the basement of Miss XXXXX 's school where the nurses wait .
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