"I believe she saw and felt her fault in that case. Didn't she ask your pardon? she said she would."
"Yes," said Miss Fortune, drily "after a fashion."
"Has she had her letter yet?"
"No."
"How is she to-day?"
"Oh, she's well enough she's sitting up. You can go up and see her."
"I will, directly," said Alice. "But now, Miss Fortune, I am going to ask a favour of you will you do me a great pleasure?"
"Certainly, Miss Alice if I can."
"If you think Ellen has been sufficiently punished for her ill-behaviour if you do not think it right to withhold her letter still will you let me have the pleasure of giving it to her? I should take it as a great favour to myself."
Miss Fortune made no kind of reply to this, but stalked out of the room, and in a few minutes stalked in again with the letter, which she gave to Alice, only saying shortly