She opened the closet to set the prisoner free and take her back into her loving favor and forgiveness, but the result was not the one expected.

The captive had manufactured a fairy cavern out of the closet, and friendly fairies out of the clothes hanging from the hooks, and was having a most sinful and unrepentant good time, and requested permission to spend the rest of the day there! _From Susy's Biography of Me._ But Mamma's oppinions and ideas upon the subject of bringing up children has always been more or less of a joke in our family, perticularly since Papa's article in the "Christian Union," and I am sure Clara and I have related the history of our old family paper-cutter, our punishments and privations with rather more pride and triumph than any other sentiment, because of Mamma's way of rearing us.
When the article "What ought he to have done ?" came out Mamma read it, and was very much interested in it.

And when papa heard that she had read it he went to work and secretly wrote his opinion of what the father ought to have done.

He told Aunt Susy, Clara and I, about it but mamma was not to see it or hear any thing about it till it came out.

He gave it to Aunt Susy to read, and after Clara and I had gone up to get ready for bed he brought it up for us to read.