For I had no manner of doubt that before long the accident would be discovered, and I felt sure that my grandmother's displeasure would be very severe.

I knew too that my having tried to conceal it would make her far less ready to forgive me, and yet I felt that I _could_ not make up my mind to confess it all.

I was so miserable that it was the greatest relief to me a minute or two afterwards to hear the hall door open and my father's hearty voice on the stair." "'I have come to fetch you rather sooner than I said, little woman,' he exclaimed, as he came in, and then he explained that he had promised to drive a friend who lived near us home from the town in our gig, and that this friend being in a hurry, we must leave earlier than usual.

My grandmother had wakened up of course with my father's coming in.

It seemed to me, or was it my fancy ?--that she looked graver than usual and rather sad as she bade us good-bye.