I could not help questioning, Ought not the girl to be told what she is punished for? Has she been "admonished?" The poor thing had no redress for such injustice.
That was the point that she, too, was revolving in her mind. When I gave her the bread and water, she said to me,—
"Look here, now, don't you think they ought to tell me what I am punished for?"
"You must not ask me such questions. It isn't for me to sit in judgment upon what the Master does."
She was intent on finding out my opinions, so she put her questions in a different way.
"If you reported me, wouldn't you tell me what it was for?"
"Certainly! I should probably give you a good scolding before I had you punished."
"If you was going to punish me just as you were a mind to, for speaking on the walk, would you shut me up here two days and two nights for it?"
"Perhaps not; but how do you know that you are to stay here two days and two nights?"
"Because they are never shut up for any shorter time."