She was very unhappy, and lay wondering how it was that with a strong desire to do right she seemed always going wrong.

If she had dropped the string, gone away to see Mrs.Kane as she had been longing to do, and returned in good time to the school-room to tea, Mark would perhaps have been better pleased with her than he actually was.

He had not guessed that she had meant to please him, to make up for telling Miss Davis that they two had played her a trick.

He did not ask about her now she was ill, or notice that she was keeping silence and allowing herself to be misunderstood in order that he might not be blamed.

If all were told he could not be much blamed, it was true, for what was a mere piece of forgetfulness.