"Not if you're going to run away, you haven't. Besides, I can't blame Fraulein so very much for being angry. It isn't so funny to be drenched like that. She was doing her duty, wasn't she?"
"Oh, she's always snooping round, if that's what you mean. Get her on your own hall for awhile and see how you like it."
"I shouldn't like it. Not at all; but that's not the point."
"What is the point?"
"That you've made a mistake and you aren't big enough to take the blame. My uncle says that making a mistake isn't such a very grave thing in itself, it's human nature. The trouble comes in not trying to correct it."
Mary looked out of the window, a frown on her face.
"You'd better not be so preachy," she said. "Everybody hates a goody-goody—here!"
Blue Bonnet laughed.
"Don't worry," she said. "I'll never be called that by any one who knows me! I've done nothing but make mistakes and get in hot water all my life. Wasn't I doing penance last week myself?"
"Then I should think you would know how other people feel."