"And now that you are conscious of having harmed Lulu, are you not willing to do what lies in your power to repair the mischief--to pay the debt she thinks you owe her ?" Rosie's head drooped and her cheeks crimsoned.

"Mamma, you are asking a hard thing of me," she said in a low, unwilling tone.

"If you order me, of course I know I must obey; but I'd rather do almost anything else than apologize to Lulu." "I wish you to do it of your own free will and from sense of duty, not because my commands are laid upon you," Elsie answered.

"Is it not the noblest course of action I am urging upon you?
Is it any less mean to refuse to meet such an obligation than a moneyed one ?--a thing of which I am sure you would be heartily ashamed to be guilty." "Certainly I should, mamma; one might as well steal as refuse to pay what one honestly owes; unless it be entirely out of one's power." "You are speaking of pecuniary obligations.

Now apply the same rule to this other: you have taken something from Lulu's peace of mind (a possession more valuable than money), and can you refuse an honest endeavor to restore it ?" "Mamma, you have a most convincing way of putting things," Rosie said, between a smile and a sigh.