Max started, and looked at Ralph with troubled eyes. "I didn't think you would swear," he said. "If you do, I—I can't be intimate with you, because my father won't allow it."
"I don't often," said Ralph, looking ashamed, "I won't again in your company."
CHAPTER XIV.
"Be sure your sin will find you out."
—Num. 32:33.
Gracie and Walter were in the play-room. They had been building block-houses for an hour or more, when Gracie, saying, "I'm tired, Walter, I'm going in yonder to see the things Max and Lulu are making," rose and sauntered into the work-room.
She watched the busy carvers for some minutes, then went down to Violet's apartments in search of her.
She found no one there but Agnes busied in putting away some clean clothes, fresh from the iron.
"Where's mamma?" asked the little girl.
"In de drawin'-room, Miss Gracie. Comp'ny dar."