“You have acquired a great deal of useful information here, no doubt,” she said, a little sarcastically.
Miss Forester looked at her with a glance of keen intelligence.
“There is a great deal to be learned, as you say, even in a quiet nook like this, if one keeps both eyes and ears open,” she replied, meaningly.
The girls passed on.
“The hateful old thing!” exclaimed Florence, indignantly.
“Hush! She will hear you,” said Carrie.
“I don’t care if she does! Listeners never hear any good of themselves; and she is no exception to the general rule. The old eaves-dropper! She deserves to be——”
“‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,’” said Susan, gently.
“I am not like you, Susie. I dare not say that yet.”
“I hope you will before long,” replied her friend.