"I should like to pay for the repairing, 'm," she at last broke the silence.
"Yes! And I should think you would like to pay for the repairing, my girl! You shall pay for it, whether you like or not! But what would your master say to such careless waste if he knew?" And Violet proceeded with the heart-breaking work of salvage.
"Now pass me that saucer, do!"
Elsie passed the saucer. Violet stared at the saucer, withheld from taking it by a sudden thought.
"What did you do with that egg?"
"What egg, 'm?"
"You know what egg. The egg your master couldn't eat this morning at breakfast. I put it in that saucer, I'm sure I did."
Violet gazed formidably at Elsie. Elsie's eyes dropped and her lips fell and she crimsoned.
"Have you put it in the cage?" No answer. "You don't mean to tell me you've eaten it!"
"Well, 'm. There it was all the time. And I felt so sinking like this afternoon. And I don't know what I was thinking of——"