"When?"
"Yesterday afternoon."
"Why did you bring it to me?"
"Because I think if it belongs to anybody it does to you, it was found among your rags."
"Why did you not bring it to me at once?"
"Because—because I didn't think at first, and I wanted it so much."
"Did you?" said he, gravely. "You know the Bible says: 'Thou shalt not covet'?"
Katie started; had she been breaking one of the commandments, after all?
Not the one about stealing, of which she had thought, but another.
"I didn't mean to do that," said she, in a low voice, "but we do want things so much—mother, I mean. We are so poor."
"Are you?" said the young man, in a sympathizing tone. "Well, you are an honest little girl to bring it to me at all. A great many would not have done so, and I should have known nothing about it. Didn't you think of that?"