"It is a shame," said Kitty. "Miss Perkins asked mother if we were not afraid to trust Therese about the house. She said she should always be expecting her to get up in the night and let her father in at the back door. But I think Therese will live it down. She has a great deal of force and of real principle too."
"Miss Perkins needn't say anything. One reason why Lenore Beaubien has got away so much of her custom is that people who took lace and velvet to Miss Perkins thought they didn't get it all back again."
"Hush, Lizzy! You shouldn't say so."
"Well, perhaps not, after your father's sermon on evil speaking this morning. I can't help being vexed for Therese, and she never says a word for herself. But there goes the bell for afternoon church. You are not vexed at me, are you, Marion?"
"No, of course not," said Marion; "only vexed at having made such a fuss."
"It was not you that made the fuss. I wouldn't mind about it, anyhow. Don't let it spoil your Sunday, as mother says to me when anything disagreeable happens."
"I don't see why Kitty Tremaine should have a class in Sunday school any more than the rest of us," said Marion to Julia when the rest had gone and they were left alone together for a few minutes. "She is only six months older than I am."
"Well, you know it begun three years ago, because Kitty was the only one in the school besides her mother and Miss Oliver who could speak French," * said Julia. "Kitty would like very well to give up her class, and come into school, but your uncle won't hear of it because she manages the infants so nicely."
* See "Kitty's Christmas Tree," American Sunday School Union.
"Oh yes, Uncle Alick thinks she is the eighth wonder of the world. I don't see anything so remarkable about her. Just think how intimate she used to be with that horrid Fanny Duskin, and what scrapes she used to get into."