"What are you doing out of bed?" she exclaimed.
"Oh, auntie, we want to tell you something! It is about the Brown house. We have been playing Robin Hood in the garden."
"It was a lovely place, and we didn't do any harm, really."
Aunt Zélie listened with just a little bit of a smile till she had heard the whole story. It had been great fun, there could be no doubt of that.
"Was it wrong?" asked Bess anxiously.
"We did not hurt anything, not one bit," Carl insisted.
"Why did you keep it such a secret?"
"That was part of the fun; but I wish we had told you," said Louise.
"Yes, it is nicer to have you know things;" and Bess sighed, relieved now that confession was made.
"It is too late to discuss it to-night, but I want you to think about it and decide for yourselves whether or not it was right."