LOOKING FORWARD--CONCLUSION There could be no doubt about the genuine nature of the horror and indignation, as well as shame, that struggled for the mastery in the mind of the astonished colored woman.

To learn that her little boy had abused her confidence whenever she took him visiting her good mistress was a shocking revelation.

She also looked furiously angry, and it was evident that the said Brutus would receive due punishment on account of his propensity for purloining things that belonged to others, just to add to his "collection." The thing that struck Hugh as bordering on the comical was that even a small colored boy might have the same mania for gathering "trophies" of his visits that possessed Madame Pangborn.
He felt that the good lady would herself be amused at the coincidence, and be ready to forgive little Brutus.
He proceeded to show Sarah that it would be entirely unnecessary to let any one know what had happened.

There would be no exposure, and she need not be "disgraced" in the eyes of her neighbors.

Hugh would simply return the spoons to their owner, who certainly would never hold it against Sarah.