"But that will be a long row, and you must be very cold." She shuddered, but not with cold.

If her father had been at home it would have been all right, but her step-mother would be there, and that would not be all right.

She would not know what to say to her.
"Oh, Dickory," she said, "I don't know where to go." "I know where you can go," he said, beginning to paddle vigorously, "I will take you to my mother.

She will take care of you to-night and give you dry clothes, and to-morrow you may go where you will.".