“Ask her if you can’t bring it over to our house.”
Chicken Little had reasons of her own for being dubious about asking further favors. She did not, however, wish to confide these reasons to her friends.
“Well, ask her.”
Chicken Little shook her head.
“Go on, Jane,” Katy insisted.
But Chicken Little was obstinate.
“Why won’t you?”
“’Cause she’s mad,” she confessed finally.
But the Fates favored her. When she went into the house in much fear of the promised punishment, she found her mother had gone out for the afternoon leaving some new patchwork cut out for her. Alice readily gave her permission to take it over to Halford’s.