'Oh, Nelly, my child, how little you know me! But oh, I am so glad you have told me all about it yourself.

That was what I was longing for.

I did so want my little girl to be true to her own honest heart.' "And then she went on to explain that she had known it all from the first.

She had not been asleep the day that I disobediently opened the cupboard, at least she had wakened up in time to see what had happened, and she had earnestly hoped that I would make up my mind to tell it frankly.

That was what had so disappointed her the next day when she had quite thought I had come on purpose to tell it all.