"You need not mind; you will be cleared; and they can't find and punish any one else, for there is no one else to find, so it can't do any one any harm." "There is Lettice," said Kitty coldly.

"You know you can't trust her, and if she tells, things will look ever so much worse for you than--" "I don't think Lettice will tell," interrupted Anna meaningly.
"She knows that if she tells tales I can tell some too." "You count on other people having some honour, though you have none yourself," said Kitty scathingly, and she turned away, choking with disgust.

Anna made her feel positively ill.

When she got to the door she stood and looked back.

Her face was very white and stern, her eyes full of a burning contempt.