May I ?--just a minute ?" smiled Billy, brightly.
As she entered the room, Billy threw a hasty look about her.

There was no one but themselves present.

With a sigh of satisfaction, therefore, the girl took the chair Mrs.Greggory offered, and began to speak.
"I was down this way--that is, I came this way this morning," she began a little hastily; "and I wanted just to come up and tell you how sorry I was about--about that teapot the other day.

We didn't want it, of course--if you didn't want us to have it." A swift change crossed Mrs.Greggory's perturbed face.
"Oh, then you didn't come for it again--to-day," she said.

"I'm so glad! I didn't want to refuse--_you_." "Indeed I didn't come for it--and we sha'n't again.