Carrie tried to thank him; but glad tears, which she could not restrain, were her only reply.
Again she attempted to speak; but her voice was choked.
“How can I ever thank you enough?” at last she said.
“Be a penitent, obedient girl,” he said; and she left the room half wild with delight.
Florence, too, had been released from her letter of confession, and they could rejoice together.
Their lesson had been indeed sufficiently severe to cure even Florence of all wish to disobey; and she devoted herself to her studies with a zeal that astonished her instructors quite as much as it delighted them.
CHAPTER VII.
ANOTHER MYSTERY.
The quarterly exhibition was drawing near. It was a great day at the school.
All the friends of the institution in town, and many from out of town, were present on these occasions.