Peggy looked rather anxious at this.
"Don't try to break them, Thor, pelease," she said; "for if you beginned breaking it might go on, and then it would be all spoilt like the last time, for there's no fun in soap-bubbling by turns."
"No, that's quite true," said Terry. "You remember the last time how stupid it was. But of course we won't break any, 'specially as they're yours, Peggy. We'll try and keep them good for another time."
"Did you spend all your pennies for them?" asked Baldwin, sympathisingly.
"Not quite all," said Peggy. "I choosed them myself," she went on, importantly. "There was a lot in a box."
"Why, where did you get them? You didn't go yourself to old Whelan's, surely?" asked Thor, sharply.
"Yes, I runned across the road," said Peggy. "You always get them there, Thor."
"But it's quite different. I can tell you mamma won't be very pleased when she comes home to hear you've been so disobedient."
Poor Peggy's face, so bright and happy, clouded over, and she seemed on the point of bursting into tears.
"I weren't disobedient," she began. "Miss Earnshaw said, 'Very well, dear,' and so I thought——"