Somehow it always makes you like a person better when you have hated them for a bit, so I liked you awfully when I woke this morning and remembered you.

When you really are fond of a person, you always want to do something to please them; so I went and told Cousin Maria that I'd read a lot of books in the library without thinking whether I ought to or not; but that now I wanted her to say what I might read and what I mightn't." This was a course of action that Christopher could thoroughly understand and appreciate.

"Was she angry ?" he asked.
"Not a bit.

That is the best of Cousin Maria--she never scolds you unless you really deserve it; and she is very sharp at finding out whether you deserve it or not.

She said that there were a lot of books in the library that weren't suitable for a little girl to read; but that it wasn't naughty of me to have read what I chose, since nobody had told me not to.