But that carelessness of his was a fault of which his father was very impatient, and which always brought on him a severe reprimand.
"And I will not tell this time," said Hetty to herself, as her eyes feverishly danced after the spots on the wall-paper.

"When I told before, it was to save Miss Davis from suffering, this time there is nobody to suffer but myself." In the meantime Mark was spending a few days with a school-fellow at a distance of some miles, and had gone away without hearing about Hetty's illness.

As soon as he returned home he missed her, and learned that she was shut up in her room.
He immediately went to inquire for her, and met Miss Davis on the stairs.
"I'm sure I don't wonder she got a cold," he said, "but I never meant her to do it." "To do what ?" asked Miss Davis.
"Why, did she not tell you ?" "I have not been able to get her to tell me what she was about that day for two hours alone in the grounds.

She has not behaved well, I am sorry to say; she has been in disgrace as well as ill." "Then it was a jolly shame!" burst forth Mark.

"I left her to hold a string for me, and I forgot all about her, and went away to ride.