An' when he tired of you he'd fling you away like an old glove." "Would he ?" cried Lavinia indignantly.

"Then he won't." "No, but it means a tussle with your mother.

What a tantrum she went in to be sure when she found you was gone.

She fell upon poor me an' called me all the foul names she could lay her tongue to.

Look at these." Hannah pushed back her cap and her hair and showed four angry red streaks down the side of her face.