“O, yes, I forgive you,” replied Lina, with a toss of her pretty head: “only you’d better not say so again. What’d you think if I should ’cuse you of stealing?”
“O, you wouldn’t,” said Dotty, quickly. “You’d know better than to s’pose I’d steal.”
“Why, Dotty Dimple! that’s the same as to say I would.”
“O, no, Lina, I don’t think that. I wouldn’t be so wicked! But I don’t like to have you sit next to my pocket, though. Won’t you please to change places?”
On the whole, it did not appear that Dotty’s apologies had made a bad matter any better. Still she thought she had done her duty, and entered the school-room with a serene face.
Lina walked behind her, looking very sullen.
CHAPTER VII.
“BLOWING AWAY.”
Things went on very much as usual with Miss Dimple. Lina did not quite forgive her for her unjust suspicions; still the two little girls chatted together, and seemed to be friends, for Lina knew how to keep her anger out of sight.