I am glad to find you so willing to acknowledge
yourself in fault."
Left alone to perform her task Hetty opened her desk and sat biting her
pen. At last she wrote:
"Dear Phyllis,--I am very sorry I said so rudely that you did not tell
the truth. But oh, why did you not tell it, and then there need not have
been any trouble?
"HETTY."
Hetty brought this note herself into the school-room, and in presence of
Miss Davis handed it to Phyllis.
"Do you call that an apology?" said Phyllis, handing the note to Miss
Davis.
"I don't think you have made things any better, Hetty," said Miss Davis.
"I said what I could, Miss Davis. Phyllis ought to apologize to me now."
Phyllis gave her a look of cold surprise, and took up a book.
"Pray, Miss Davis, do not mind," said she over the edges of her book. "I
expect nothing but insolence from Hetty Gray. Mother little knew what
she was providing for us when she brought her here."
Hetty turned wildly to the governess. "Miss Davis," she cried, "can I
not go away somewhere, away from here? Is there not some place in the
world where they would give a girl like me work to do? How can I go on
living here, to be treated as Phyllis treats me?"
Miss Davis took her by the hand and led her out of the room and upstairs
to her own chamber.
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