Abby, be sure to take good care of Dotty.

Don't trust her out of your sight one minute .-- Hark! there's the door-bell.

You may go out of the house by the back-door." Then Miss Louise hastened from the dining-room, without looking back to see whether the children obeyed her or not.

Dotty was, in general, prompt to do as she was bidden by older people; but just now both the children found it hard to leave that tempting table.

They dared not taste the dainties, but Abby thought it could surely do no harm just to touch them.