Jimbo

Jimbos governess ought to have known better -- but she didnt. If she had Jimbo would never have met with the adventures that subsequently came to him. Thus in a roundabout sort of way the child ought to have been thankful to the governess; and perhaps in a roundabout sort of way he was. But that comes at the far end of the story and is doubtful at best; and in the meanwhile the child had gone through his suffering and the governess had in some measure expiated her fault; so that at this stage it is only necessary to note that the whole business began because the Empty House happened to be really an Empty House -- not the one Jimbos family lived in but another of which more will be known in due course. . . .