"Perhaps Mrs. Brenton was right, and I ought to have asked his advice." The next moment, however, she dismissed this. "It cannot matter to him how I earn my bread."
"I shall send him back the greater portion of the money he lent me," she determined at another moment. "I must get myself a few things to wear. I cannot go about with the children quite so shabby as I was to-day. But I shall not require more than half the money he lent me, and I shall pay the other off as quickly as I can get my salary."
When she remembered his mother she laughed.
"Explanation! ... It is very evident that he does not know her as well as I do."
It was very late before Caroline's eyes closed drowsily, and then she had slept scarcely an hour when she was awakened with a start.
Little hands were pulling her, and a little voice was whispering out of the darkness.
"Caloline! ... Caloline! ... may I come into your bed?"
Instantly the girl was awake.... She sat up and held out her arms.
Dennis had warned her—
"If Miss Baby wants to rouse you and creep in with you, don't you let her, miss," she had said; "you'll want all the rest you can get, and children shouldn't never be encouraged in such goings on."