"Nonsense!" said her sister again; "the only thing is for you to stay in your room."
"But I don't want to stay in my room, and I can't."
"Oh dear! what can I do with this child?" exclaimed Mrs. Willoughby, whose patience was giving way.
Upon this Minnie went over and kissed her, and begged to be forgiven; and offered to do any thing that darling Kitty wanted her to do.
After this they talked a good deal over their difficulty, but without being able to see their way out of it more clearly.
That evening they were walking up and down the balcony of the house. It was a quadrangular edifice, and they had a suite of rooms on the second and third stories. They were on the balcony of the third story, which looked down into the court-yard below. A fountain was in the middle of this, and the moon was shining brightly.
The ladies were standing looking down, when Minnie gently touched her sister's arm, and whispered,
"Look at the man!"
"Where?"
"By the fountain."