"What did such a good little girl as you be run away from father and mother for ?" she piped, going back to first principles and the root of the whole matter, since she had heard nothing of the discussion which had been going on about her, and had supposed it to deal with them.
Ellen gasped.

Suddenly all her first woe returned upon her recollection.

She turned innocent, accusing eyes upon her father's loving face, then her mother's and aunt's.

"You said--you said--you--" she stammered out, but then her father and mother were both down upon their knees before her in her chair embracing her, and Eva, too, seized her little hands.

"You mustn't ever think of what you heard father and mother say, Ellen," Andrew said, solemnly.
"You must forget all about it.