An hour afterward you called to say that I had made a mistake and sent you home two yards more than you had paid for; but that as you liked the pattern very much, you would keep it and buy two yards more for a dress for your little girl." "Yes; that is exactly the truth in regard to the dress.

I am obliged to you, Mr.S----, for the trouble I have given you.

I will not keep you any longer." The young man bowed and withdrew.
The ladies immediately gathered around Mrs.Comegys, with a thousand apologies for having for a moment entertained the idea that she had been guilty of wrong, while Mrs.Grimes took refuge in a flood of tears.
"I have but one cause of complaint against you all," said the injured lady, "and it is this.

A charge of so serious a nature should never have been made a subject of common report without my being offered a chance to defend myself.

As for Mrs.Grimes, I can't readily understand how she fell into the error she did.