Something that passed between her and her father.

I rather suspect he sent her upstairs as a punishment." "Pshaw! I've no patience with him.

The dear little thing! I don't believe she deserved it." Rose made no reply, but glided up-stairs, and he returned to the parlor to finish the discussion with Mr.Dinsmore.
In the meantime Elsie had shut herself into her father's room, where she indulged for a few moments in a hearty cry, which seemed to do her a great deal of good.

But presently she wiped away her tears, bathed her eyes, and sat down by the window.
"What a silly little girl I am," she said to herself, "to be crying just because I can't have my own way, when I know it will not alter papa's determination in the least; and when I know, too, that I have always found his way the best in the end! Oh, dear, I have quite disgraced myself before Miss Rose and her mother, and the rest, and vexed papa, too! I wish I could be good and then I might be down-stairs with the others, instead of alone up here.

Well, papa said I might come down again as soon as I could be pleasant and cheerful, and I think I can now, and there is the tea-bell." She ran down just in time to take her place with the others.