Father does too." "Even after you knew I did not allow it ?" cried Aunt Pike, ignoring Kitty's reference to her father.
"I didn't know you didn't allow it," said Kitty doggedly.

"I had never heard you say anything about it; and as father did it, I didn't think there was any harm." "No harm! no harm to frighten poor Anna so that she flew from her bed and came rushing through the dark house to me quite white and trembling.
She was afraid your room was on fire, and was dreadfully frightened of course.

She will probably feel the ill effects of the shock for some time." Betty, having got over her fright, had been sitting up in bed all this time embracing her knees.

When Anna's name was mentioned her eyes began to sparkle.

"If Anna had come in here first to see, she needn't have trembled or been frightened," she remarked shrewdly.
"Anna naturally ran to her mother," said Mrs.Pike sharply.
"Anna naturally ran to sneak," said Betty to herself, "and I don't believe she really thought there was a fire at all, and I'll tell her so when I get her by herself." Aloud she said, "I wonder what made her get out of bed and look under our door.