Mary Poppins (4)

Mary Poppins (4)

Well, Mr Banks went off with his black bag, and Mrs Banks went into the drawing-room and sat there all day long writing letters to the papers and begging them to send some Nannies to her at once as she was waiting;

and upstairs in the Nursery, Jane and Michael watched at the window and wondered who would come.

They were glad Katie Nanna had gone, for they had never liked her.
She was old and fat and smelt of barley-water.

Anything, they thought, would be better than Katie Nannaーif not much better.

When the aftenoon began to die away behind the park, Mrs Brill and Ellen came to give them their supper and to bath of Twins.

And after supper Jane and Michael sat at the window watching for Mr banks to come home, and listening to the sound of the East Wind blowing through the naked branches of cherry-trees in the Lane.

The trees themselves, turning and bending in the half light, lookes as though they had gone mad and were dancing teir roots out of the ground.

" There he is ! " said Michael, pointing suddenly to a shape that banged heavily against the gate.

Jane peered through the gathering darkness.
" That's not daddy, " she said.
" It's somebody else. "

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