"There you see it," exclaimed Mrs. Morton. "It didn't seem much to Ethel Brown not to make two or three dozen cookies, but in the first place she broke her promise, and in the next place she caused real unhappiness to a girl who was depending on them to give pleasure to her sick cousin."
"You've given us a shake-up we won't forget soon, Mother," remarked Roger. "There's one duty I haven't done this week that you haven't mentioned, but I'm pretty sure you know it so I might as well bring it into the light myself and say I'm sorry."
"What is it?" laughed his mother.
"I haven't been over to see Grandfather and Grandmother Emerson for ten days."
"They'll be sorry."
"I was relying on one of the girls going."
"We haven't been," confessed the Ethels.
"Nor I," admitted Helen.
Mrs. Morton looked serious.
"We love to go there," said Ethel Brown, "but we've been so busy."