"I will, too," cried Lucretia, who was fiery, with all her sweetness.
"You won't."
"You see if I don't, Lois Green."
"You won't."
All through the day it seemed to her, the more she thought of it, that she must go with the others to trim the school-house, and she must have something on the Christmas-tree. A keen sense of shame for her aunts and herself was over her; she felt as if she must keep up the family credit.
"I wish I could go to trim this evening," she said to Alma, as they were going home after school.
"Don't you believe they'll let you?"
"I don't believe they'll 'prove of it," Lucretia answered, with dignity.
"Say, Lucretia, do you s'pose it would make any difference if my mother should go up to your house an' ask your aunts?"
Lucretia gave her a startled look: a vision of her aunt's indignation at such interference shot before her eyes. "Oh, I don't believe it would do a mite of good," said she, fervently. "But I tell you what 'tis, Alma, you might come home with me while I ask."