Chapter 29

you're doing splendidly . You have nothing to worry about ? - and her heart steadied down and she was able to answer the questions her uncle and cousins put to her with some degree of rationality . And now I think Margaret had better take you up to your room , ' said Sir Archibe.

Lucy was glad to go , though she felt a little nervous in Margaret's company . The latter took her across the hall and up the broad ornamental staircase ; at the top she turned to the right and along a passage , then to the right again . It seemed bewildering to Joan , who tried to mem orize the turnings ' I am sure I shall never be able to find my way about , she cried . ' It will come in time , ' said Margaret . ' Of course , you have been used to a little house , haven't you ? ' It had never occurred to Lucy  to regard Aunt Lilian's house as little ; she had thought it a big rambling place , especially when she had to do all the work of it , but she realized that compared with Kilrossan stan