“You cannot leave me out here by myself, so you must drag me home,” said Norman, “and I am determined that you shall go as fast as I like.”
“Home we will go, then,” answered Fanny, and, turning the carriage round, she began to return by the way they had come.
Norman seemed determined to make her angry, for after they had gone a little way he again hit her with the end of his stick. Suddenly turning round, she snatched it from him, and, breaking it in two, threw it to a distance.
Norman was afraid of getting out, lest his sister should run off with the carriage, and as she could not now be struck, she dragged it home as fast as she could go.
Mr Maclean seemed somewhat surprised to see his young friends return so soon.
Norman lost his excursion, and Fanny, in her kindness, thinking that he was sufficiently punished, did not say how he had treated her.