She finally resolved to be very, very good and obedient from that time on.
But good resolutions are broken occasionally, even by grown-ups, and in childhood much can be forgotten in nine days.

So, on the afternoon of the tenth day, which was the day before the picnic, Mary-'Gusta walking alone in the field which separated the Gould-Hamilton property from that of Abner Bacheldor, Jimmie's father--Mary-'Gusta, walking in that field, was depressed and melancholy.

Her state of mind was indicated by the fact that she had left all her dolls, even Rose and Rosette, at home.
She felt guilty and wicked and conscience-stricken.

She had been a bad girl; only one other knew how bad she had been and he, being guilty likewise, would not betray her.

But at home Isaiah Chase was, as he said, "heatin' himself to a bile" baking apple turnovers for her to take to the picnic.