"Oh, how sorry you will be for it if ever he is taken away from you!" Eva said, with emotion. "But did he let you have your own way?"
"No, indeed; he is as strict in exacting obedience from his children as Grandpa Dinsmore himself. I'm dreadfully afraid Grandpa Dinsmore or somebody will write to him about to-day; I do hope they won't, for he said if I should be disobedient and troublesome he would take me away from here and put me in a boarding-school."
"And you wouldn't like that?"
"No, indeed! for how could I bear to be separated from Gracie and Max?"
"I hope you won't have to go; I should be sorry enough on my own account as well as yours," Evelyn said, with an affectionate kiss. "I must really go now; so good-by, dear, till to-morrow."
Evelyn had hardly gone when Max joined his sister. "Lulu, why can't you behave?" he exclaimed in a tone of impatience and chagrin. "You make Gracie and me both ashamed of your ingratitude to Grandpa Dinsmore."
"I don't choose to be lectured by you, Max," returned Lulu, with a toss of her head.
"No; but what do you suppose papa would say to this morning's behavior?"
"Suppose you write and tell him all about it, and see what he says," she returned scornfully.
"You know I would not do such a thing," said Max; "but I should think you would feel bound to do it."