"It Is the Child!"

Three members of the Large Family — Janet, Nora, and Donald — have been invited to come and cheer up the Indian gentleman, who is anxious. He is waiting for news from Moscow, where Mr. Carmichael has been searching for a child. Donald bounces on the tiger-skin rug. Janet keeps order. The Indian gentleman tells them honestly that their noise is better for him than his own thoughts.

Sara appears at the door to return the monkey, which has escaped again. Carrisford looks at her carefully. She is thin, badly dressed, clearly from the school next door. But her bearing is not that of a servant, and her manner of speaking is not that of a child from the class her clothes suggest. He asks her in. He speaks to her. He asks her name, and her father's name.

Sara tells him. Captain Crewe, of the Indian army, who died in India two years ago. She says it without dramatics. Carrisford's face changes. He sends one of the children for Mr. Carmichael. He looks at Sara with an expression she does not yet understand. He says: I have been looking for you. The recognition is not the end of the chapter, because the chapter ends with Miss Minchin arriving breathless at the front door to reclaim her property. It takes one more chapter to resolve.