"You are upsetting every thing, and don't drink your tea." "Nothing--only--I have some troublesome business to settle," he said, getting up to go out again.

"You needn't wait for me; I shall be out late." "What can be the matter ?" Lillie, indeed, had not the remotest idea.

Yet she remembered his jumping up suddenly, and throwing down the Bible; and mechanically she went to it, and opened it.

She turned it over; and the record met her eye.
"Provoking!" she said.

"Stupid old creature! must needs go and put that out in full." Lillie took a paper-folder, and cut the leaf out quite neatly; then folded and burned it.
She knew now what was the matter.