“Doctor Rhodes,” said she, “I think you ought to know—that is, I think I ought to tell you—that I sewed just as many buttons on that red nightgown as Maude did; and I ought to be punished just as much.”
“Did you take Miss Woodruff’s silver cardcase?”
“Why, no!” returned Mabel, indignantly. “Of course I didn’t.”
“Or Madame’s cigarettes?”
“No.”
“Or five dollars out of Madame’s everyday hat?”
“Oh, no. And Maude didn’t touch the money or the card case. I’m sure of that.”
“What about the cigarettes?”
“She did take those and we both took the buttons and the tape; but nothing else.”
“And you think you ought to be punished?”