You would not have dared to do it had your father been alive." Ned dashed down his scarcely begun bread and butter and flung himself out of the room, and then out of the house, and it was some hours before he returned.

Then he went straight up to his mother's room.
"I beg your pardon, mother," he said quietly.

"I am very sorry I spoke as I did.

I ought not to have done so." "Very well," Mrs.Sankey said coldly; "then don't do it again, Ned." Without another word Ned went off to his books.

He was grieved and sore at heart.