Ann Lizy's grandmother shook her head meaningly at Mrs. Putnam.
"I don't know about that," said she. "Ownin'-up takes away some of the sin, but it don't all."
But when she and Ann Lizy were on their homeward road she kept glancing down at her granddaughter's small face. It struck her that it was not so plump and rosy as it had been.
"I think you've had quite a lesson by this time about that patchwork," she remarked.
"Yes, ma'am," said Ann Lizy.
They walked a little farther. The golden-rod and the asters were in blossom now, and the road was bordered with waving fringes of blue and gold. They came in sight of Jane Baxter's house.
"You may stop in Jane Baxter's, if you want to," said old Mrs. Jennings, "and ask her mother if she can come over and spend the day with you to-morrow. And tell her I say she'd better not bring her sewing, and she'd better not wear her best dress, for you and she ain't goin' to sew any, and mebbe you'll like to go berryin', and play out-doors."
[THE LITTLE PERSIAN PRINCESS]
"And you must spin faster, Dorothy, or you'll go to bed without your supper," said Dame Betsy.