But Lily shook her head.
"Mamma has forbidden me to go in the boat when it is on the sea, sir," she said.
"I think your mamma would not object here, dear, and with Mr. Bradford in the boat," said Mr. Powers.
"But she might, sir, and I think I'd better not," said obedient Lily. "She told me so very spressly not to go; and she only gave me leave to row this afternoon because Tom was going on the river."
"You are a dear, good child," said Mr Powers. "Mamie, are you for the boat?"
Mamie had, until this minute, been standing farther back than the other children, not actually on the breakwater, but as near to the forbidden ground as she could possibly be. She had never been so near to it before; and I am afraid that if her playmates had not known of her mother's command, she would have disregarded it altogether. She had no further thought for it when she heard Mr. Powers invitation, but started forward.
"Mamie," said Tom, "did not your mother forbid you to come upon the breakwater?"
"I can't go in the boat if I don't," pouted Mamie, stopping short where she was.
"Go back!" said Tom decidedly; "you cannot come in till you go down to the river. Stay with Lily and Maggie."