And I do believe she thinks I meant to mock her.

Oh dear! oh dear! oh dear!" Downstairs the luncheon bell rang, and they all seated themselves at table, but no Molly appeared.
"Shall I run up and tell her to come down ?" suggested Sylvia, but "no," said grandmother, "it is better not." But grandmother's heart was sore.
"I shall be so sorry if there is anything of sulkiness or resentfulness in Molly," she said to herself.

"What _could_ the child have had in her head ?".