And I thought I might just run for ten minutes to see Miss Bennett, who wanted me so." "You were with Miss Bennett, then?
Any body else ?" "Only a gentleman," said Letitia, hanging her head and blushing with that painful precocity of consciousness so sad to see in a little girl.
"What was his name ?" "I don't know.

Miss Bennett didn't tell me.

She only said he was a friend of hers, who liked little girls, and that if I could come and have a walk with them, without telling Phillis or any body, she would let me off all the hardest of my French lessons.

And so--and so--Oh, hide me, there's papa at the hall door, and Aunt Henrietta coming out of the dining- room.

And Aunt Henrietta never believes what I say, even if I tell her the truth.