To have to stand morally or actually in the corner with other naughty children was a humiliation she had unfortunately never experienced, but was one which would have done her a world of good.

All those early storms of remorse, repentance, compunction, which do so much to prepare the ground for a growth of virtue in children's hearts, were an unknown experience to her.

She believed in herself, and she expected others, young and old, to believe in her.

Such characters, if not discovered and humbled in time, are likely to have a terrible future, and to grow up the unconscious enemies of their own happiness and that of the people who live around them.
Mark kept up his indignation towards Hetty for a week.

He did not grieve over the quarrel as she did, but he missed her sadly in his games.
However, an accident soon occurred which made them friends again.
Mark had had a piece of land given to him in a retired part of the grounds, and he was full of the project of making a garden of his own, according to his own particular fancy.