'I really don't think I did anything else that was very bad all day,' he said to himself.

But at the same time he could not honestly feel that he was worth standing up for.

All at once a light seemed to break in upon his mind, and he woke up and there was the withered little atomy of the old lady on the other side of the moonlight, and there was the spinning wheel singing on and on in the middle of it! 'I know now, ma'am; I understand now,' he said.

'Thank you, ma'am, for spinning it into me with your wheel.

I see now that I have been doing wrong the whole day, and such a many days besides! Indeed, I don't know when I ever did right, and yet it seems as if I had done right some time and had forgotten how.