CHAPTER XIV.
MOKUS AND CARROTS.
Kitty heard Dan go downstairs the next morning just as she was finishing dressing, and her heart thumped painfully, for she knew he was going to confess.

When confessions had to be made Dan always made them as quickly as possible so as to get them off his mind.

Kitty hurriedly finished her dressing, and followed him with some vague idea in her mind of helping him.
But when they got down there was no one else about, and before they had seen any one to whom to confess, Mrs.Pike burst into the dining-room where they stood, miserably enough, waiting.
"Kitty, Dan, do either of you know where your father is?
I want him to come to Anna.

She is so unwell, and in some extraordinary way has burnt her hands dreadfully.

Oh dear! oh dear! what troubles do come upon me.
I suppose it was foolish of me to leave her last night to put herself to bed when she was so tired.