“To try me?” asked Caleb.
“Yes, I want to know what troubles, or difficulties, or disappointments you had to bear, and did bear patiently and pleasantly.”
Caleb looked a little perplexed.
“You know, Caleb,” she continued, “there is no merit in being pleasant unless things go wrong.”
“Isn't there?” said Caleb.
“Why, no,” said Mary Anna, as she shut up her work-table drawer, “is there?”
“Why no,” said Caleb, smiling; for he could not help smiling, while yet he was a little disappointed at finding all his fancied goodness melted away.
“Now, did you have a good time in the woods to-day?”
“Yes,” said Caleb.
“Did Raymond take good care of you?”