But he won't try again, and you can scold Mary to-morrow and then she can scold her young man." The child spoke so naturally that all doubts vanished from Mrs.Goddard's mind.

She reflected that children are much more apt to see things as they are, than grown people whose nerves are out of order.

Nellie's conclusions were perfectly logical, and it seemed folly to doubt them.
She determined that Mary should certainly be scolded on the morrow and she unconsciously resolved in her mind the words she should use; for she was rather a timid woman and stood a little in awe of her stalwart Berkshire cook, with her mighty arms and her red face, and her uncommonly plain language.
"Yes dear," she said more quietly than she had been able to speak for some time, "I have no doubt you are quite right.

I thought I heard his footsteps just now, going down the path.

So he will not trouble us any more to-night.