What do you think of that ?" This is a copy of the letter that found its way to Beacon Street a few days after:-- "My dear Uncle and Aunt Miranda: "I am so sorry I don't know what to do.

I was so tired sitting still, and going to dinner-parties, and then auntie was displeased about the beggar-girl (I took her home, and her mother was just as glad as she could be, and so poor!) and so I felt angry and homesick, and I know I oughtn't to have gone to such a place without asking; but I didn't think; and then I came home in the afternoon train, but I didn't think when I did that either.

Mother says that was no excuse, and I know it was very wicked in me to do such a thing.

Mrs.Surly met me in the cars at Rutland, and took me to spend the night with her cousin, Mrs.Mary Ann Jacobs; so I got along safely, and nothing happened to me, but one drunken man that kept talking.
"Mother says I have done a _very_ rude and unkind thing, to leave you all so, when you had invited me there, and been so good to me.

I know it.