Drawing out her watch, "It is past your bedtime," she said.

"Lulu, dear," and she drew the child caressingly toward her, "when you say your prayers to-night will you not ask God to show you the right and help you to do it ?" "Mamma Vi, it can't be right to tell a lie, and what else should I be doing if I went back to Signor Foresti for lessons after I've said over and over that I never would again ?" "Suppose a man has promised to commit murder; should he keep that promise or break it ?" asked Violet.
"Break it, of course," replied Lulu; "but this is quite another thing, Mamma Vi." "I'm not so clear about that," Violet answered seriously.

"In the case we have supposed, the promise would be to break the sixth commandment; in yours it is to break the fifth." "I'm not disobeying papa," asserted Lulu, hotly.
"Are you not ?" asked Violet; "did he not bid you obey my grandfather while he is not here to direct you himself ?" "Yes, ma'am," acknowledged Lulu, reluctantly; "but I'm sure he never thought your grandpa would be so unreasonable as to say I must take lessons of a man like Signor Foresti who had struck me: and that when I did not deserve it at all." "Lulu," said Violet, a little severely, "your father made no reservation.
But now good-night," she added in a more affectionate tone.
"I trust you will wake to-morrow morning in a better frame of mind." "But I won't," muttered Lulu, as she left the room and retired to her own; "I'll not be driven, coaxed, or hired.".