"Go down and tell him to come up here instantly."
Down went Jane.
"Come along up-stairs to your mother," said she.
"No, I won't," replied the boy.
"Very well, mister! You can do as you like; but your mother sent for you."
"Tell mother I am playing here so good. I'm not in any mischief. Am I, Margaret?"
"No, Tommy; but your mother has sent for you, and you had better go."
"I don't want to."
"Just as you like," said Jane, indifferently, as she left the kitchen and went up-stairs.
"Where's Thomas?" was the question with which she was met on returning to the chamber.