78 THE COUSINS.

“ Do you feel that you have done wrong, Lucy,
and are you sorry for that, or are you only sorry
for having displeased me ?”

“T am sorry I did anything to vex Cousin
Mary, mamma.”

“Then tell your cousin so,” said Mrs. Lovett,
giving her daughter a kiss of forgiveness.

Mary had dined up stairs with Charles, and
Lucy found her in noisy, merry play with him.
Mary’s anger towards her cousin. had softened,
and, had it not, she could not have withstood
Lucy’s weeping overtures towards reconciliation ;
80 peace was again established between them.