"But I shall be making it easy for you to be wicked; I shall be helping you to do an unkind thing."
They were in the thick of their argument when Miss Falkner came into the room, so they dropped it. Lessons were started, and progressed very smoothly. At twelve o'clock, when they were dismissed, Jill came to Jack, and put the stamps into his hand.
"There they are," she said; "but I wouldn't be you for anything!"
"I've helped you to be good," said Jack with the greatest satisfaction as he sat down at the school-room table and began to stick the stamps into his album at once.
Jill ran out into the garden.
"Come and thwing me!" cried Bumps.
"I can't, Bumps, I must try to do something wonderfully good."
"What will you do?" asked Bumps curiously.
"I don't know; I think I will get the Bible and find out."