"Why not?
I am sure it was best to.
Fanny wouldn't live with her, I know, and Jabez said it would be more than his life was worth, and you know father hates changing servants, so I wrote and told her exactly all about it.

I wrote quite plainly, and I think she will understand." "O Betty, you shouldn't have.

What _will_ father say ?" "Father will be very glad, I think.

He hates writing letters himself." "Um--m!" commented Kitty dubiously, but said no more, for at that moment Dan's door was opened, and she heard her father's steps pass lightly along the corridor.
A few moments later she slipped out of bed and carried Dan's tray to his room, but she did not go in with it.

Her instinct told her that he would rather she did not just then; so, laying it on the floor, she tapped lightly at his door, told him what was there, and crept back to bed again.
"What a day it has been," she thought to herself as she nestled down under the cool sheet.