With a nature like hers, how would she ever become sufficiently disciplined to be fit for the life of toil and self-repression that lay before her?
The next day Hetty looked out anxiously for an opportunity of speaking privately to Mark.
"I have something to say to you, Mark," she said; "I had to tell Miss Davis that we played the trick." "You had to tell her!" said Mark scornfully; "well, if ever I trust a tell-tale of a girl again.

You are just as sneaky as Nell after all." "Nell is not sneaky; and you ought not to call me a tell-tale.

You ran away and left me with all Miss Davis's trouble on my shoulders.

I didn't want to tell; but it was better than having her suffer so dreadfully." "Oh, very well.

You can make a friend of her.