"No, but he was angry with me."
"Tell me what happened after you went home with him?"
Mamie put her finger in her mouth and hung her head, but after a moment she looked up and said,—
"He took me into mamma's room, and there was a woman there I did not know, and that baby was in the bed with mamma."
"And what then?"
"Mamma told me to come and see my darling little sister, and I cried and said I would not have her for my sister, and she should not stay there. And papa said I was naughty, and that woman said she would not have such a noise there, and I must go away if I was not quiet, and that made me madder. I wasn't going to be sent out of my own mamma's room for that baby. If she was its nurse, she could take it away. It hadn't any business there, and then—then—"
Mamie was beginning to feel ashamed, and to see that the most of her trouble came from her own naughtiness.
"Well, dear," said Mrs. Bradford, gently, "and then?"