The schoolmistress came to the rescue.
"You mustn't blame Mr.Bangs, Mrs.Beasley," she explained.

"He wasn't responsible for what happened at Captain Whittaker's.

He is the gentleman who drove me over here.

I was going to send him to Mrs.
Atwood's for the diary." "Who said I was blamin' him ?" queried the widow.

"If 'twas that little Tidditt thing I might feel different.