A few hours later, when the girls had gone to their room, Matilda asked—
"When are you going to look for new scholars, Maria?"
"What?" was Maria's energetic and not very graceful response.
"When are you going to look for some new scholars to bring to the school?"
"The Sunday-School!" said Maria. "I thought you meant the school where we go every day. I don't know."
"You promised you would try."
"Well, so I will, when I see any I can bring."
"But don't you think you ought to go and look for them?"
"How can I, Tilly? I don't know where to go; and I haven't got time, besides."
"I think I know where we could go," said Matilda, "and maybe we could get one, at any rate. Don't you know the Dows' house? on the turnpike road?—beyond the bridge ever so far?"