Mrs. Allis hesitated, but at length
gave her consent, specifying the distance which she might go.
Scarcely had they started on their walk, when Jane remarked,--
"I declare! it's mean in your mother to keep you so dreadful close, just as
though you didn't know enough to take care of yourself!"
"Mother isn't mean; and you must not say so, Jane, or I shall go right
home."
"What! You're mad, are you? Well, I'm sure I don't care, if _you_ don't;
but I'm glad my mother don't do so, anyway!"
Susie now turned the conversation, and told Jane that Miss Wilson was
making new bonnets for her and Annie. After some questions as to what kind
of bonnets they were, and how they were trimmed, Jane asked,--
"When are they going to be done?"
"I suppose they are done to-day; but we shall not get them until some time
next week, for it is too late for father to go to-night, and he is very
tired besides."
"Why don't you go and get them yourself? I would."
"Oh, it's too far to go."
"Nonsense! It's only two miles."
"But mother did not send me: she would have sent me if she had wished me to
go."
"Pooh! she thought you would be afraid to go! I'll warrant she would be
glad enough to see the bonnets home. Come along, now! I'll go with you. You
know you can't go to meeting tomorrow if you don't get your bonnet."
"Oh, yes: we can wear our clean sun-bonnets.
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