Without giving herself time to think, or to observe the looks of those in the room, she went straight up to Phyllis and said cheerfully: "Phyllis, I am sorry I gave you offence.

I hope you will forget it and be friends with me"; and then she took her seat at the table as if nothing had happened.
Miss Davis, who had been rather dreading her appearance, fearing a renewal of the quarrel, looked up at her and actually coloured all over her faded face with pleasure and surprise.

Hetty had really taken her lessons to heart, and was going to be a wise and prudent girl after all.
She little thought that a far higher spirit actuated the girl than had at all entered into her teachings.
Phyllis glanced round with a triumphant air as if saying, "Now I am indeed proved in the right.

She herself has acknowledged it!" and then she said gently: "I accept your apology, Hetty, and I will not say anything of the matter to my mother." "Is not Phyllis good," whispered Nell afterwards, "not to tell mamma?
Because you know, you were very naughty to her, Hetty, and she is papa's daughter and the eldest." Nell's friendly speeches were sometimes hard to bear, as well as Phyllis's unfriendly ones.

Hetty would have been glad if the whole affair could have been laid before Mrs.Enderby, and saw no reason to congratulate herself on Phyllis's silence to her mother as to the quarrel and its cause.