Good-night--
run after Helen.'
Dora obeyed, and Lucy also turned away; Katherine lingered. 'Come,
Kate,' said Harriet, mounting the steps. --'Lucy, you nonsensical
girl, come back; everyone can see you out of the window; it is very
rude, now; if Mrs. Turner sees you, what will she think? Mamma would
be very angry to see you so silly. Come back, I tell you!'
Lucy only looked back, and shook her head, and then hastened away;
but Katherine, fearing that her friends would be irrecoverably
offended if she turned away from their house, thinking that she had
gone too far to recede, and trusting to Elizabeth to shield her from
blame, followed the others up-stairs.
Helen turned back, much surprised, as Lucy and Dora overtook her; and
they hastened to give explanations.
'Lizzie said I had better come home,' said Dora.
'And I thought it would be the safest thing to do,' said Lucy.
'I am very glad of it,' said Helen; 'I am sure it is not right to go,
but when Lizzie has once set her mind on anything, she will listen to
no one.'
'Then do you think Papa and Mamma will be displeased?' said Dora;
'I do not think Lizzie thinks so.
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