Delia Guest, did you put her in ?" "No'm--he, he! I guess I--ha, ha!--didn't," said Delia.
"Next!"-- and down the first row went Miss Cardrew, asking the same question of every girl, and the second row, and the third.

Gypsy sat on the end of the fourth settee.
"Gypsy Breynton, did you put the kitten in my desk ?" "No'm, I didn't," said Gypsy; which was true enough.

It was Joy who did that part of it.
"Did you have anything to do with the matter, Gypsy ?" Perhaps Miss Cardrew remembered that Gypsy had had something to do with a few other similar matters since she had been in school.
"Yes'm," said honest Gypsy, with crimson face and hanging head, "I did." "What did you do ?" "I put on the apron and the tippet, and--I gave her the biscuit.
I--thought she'd keep still till prayers were over," said Gypsy, faintly.
"But you did not put her in the desk ?" "No'm." "And you know who did ?" "Yes'm." Miss Cardrew never asked her scholars to tell of each other's wrong-doings.

If she had, it would have made no difference to Gypsy.

She had shut up her lips tight and not another word would she have said for anybody.