Then Mrs.Gray found her voice.
"Young woman," she said, "you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

What can you hope to gain by saying unkind things about a nice, gentle, little girl who is in every respect worthy of all the love and regard that can be given her?
I do not know what you can be thinking of to speak so slightingly of one of your classmates, and I am sorry to be obliged to remind you that it is the height of ill breeding to abuse a person to his or her friends." With these words, Mrs.Gray turned her back squarely upon the dazed girl, who slowly arose, and without looking at Mrs.Gray, walked dejectedly across the room.

But Miriam Nesbit lost one supporter from that minute on.
"Hateful things," said the mortified Frances, looking towards Julia and Miriam.

"I believe they are more to blame than Miss Pierson ever thought of being." When Grace paused at Mrs.Gray's side after the two-step, she saw plainly that the old lady was much agitated.
"Grace," she said quickly, "what is all this nonsense about Anne ?" "O Mrs.Gray," cried Grace.

"Who could have been so unkind as to tell you?
We didn't want you to know.