And you must not mind Phyllis if she does not go into raptures like me.

She is always so well-behaved, and takes everything so quietly." Phyllis looked greatly surprised, and not quite pleased, when, having heard a knock at her door and said "Come in," she saw Hetty invade her room.

Her first thought was, "This foundling girl is going to be forward and troublesome"; and Hetty was not slow to read her glance.
"I have brought you a present," she said, in quite a different tone from that in which she had made her little speech to Nell.
Phyllis took the desk slowly, and looked at it as if she wished it had not been offered.
"It is very handsome," she said, "and my aunt was very good to think of it.

Please give her my best thanks." And then Phyllis deposited the present on a table, and turned away and began to change her shoes.
Nell looked at Hetty, but could not see the expression of her face; for she had turned as quickly as Phyllis and was already vanishing through the door..