"
"Yes, dear; and what else could you expect?" answered Kitty.
"What else could I expect? I don't understand."
"Well, was it likely now that I would stay in that close, stifling
schoolroom when the sun was shining and there was a bird on a tree
outside singing to me as loud as ever it could? And I had made an
arrangement with Gwin Harley to walk up and down with her during recess,
and the darling girl had put off two others for me, and was waiting for
me. Don't you think it was about natural that I should disobey Miss
Worrick, whom I never cared twopence for, and go out to Gwin Harley,
whom I love? Of course I knew I was disobedient, and I supposed she
would punish me; but I didn't think she would have me up for you to
lecture me."
"You behaved very badly indeed," said Miss Sherrard; "and you are now
talking in an extremely silly way."
Kitty bowed her head; the light went out of her eyes, her face turned
pale.
"What punishment will you invent to torture me with?" she said at last
in a low voice. "I suppose I have done wrong, and I am willing to take
the punishment. What is it?"
"Of course you must be punished," said the head-mistress; "it would
never do to allow disobedience is the school. You see, Kitty--"
"Oh, bless you, bless you, for calling me by my Christian name,"
muttered Kitty Malone.
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