She'll take the risk." "I can't," said the child.
"You hear her!" said Peg.
"Very improper conduct!" said Dick, shaking his head in grave reproval.
"Little gal, I'm ashamed of you.

Put her in the closet, Peg." "Come along," said Peg, harshly.

"I'll show you how I deal with those that don't obey me." So Ida was incarcerated once more in the dark closet.

Yet in the midst of her desolation, child as she was, she was sustained and comforted by the thought that she was suffering for doing right.
When Ida failed to return on the appointed day, the Hardings, though disappointed, did not think it strange.
"If I were her mother," said the cooper's wife, "and had been parted from her for so long, I should want to keep her as long as I could.

Dear heart! how pretty she is and how proud her mother must be of her!" "It's all a delusion," said Rachel, shaking her head, solemnly.