Zom gets into disgrace. 151

 

with Archie for having been present when he
was punished.

“Tom,” said she, “you know quite well.
Because you were disobedient. When I come
back I hope to find you sorry.”

She turned away. Tom felt angrier than
ever.

“Tm not a bit sorry now!” he called after
her as she shut the door. She did not return
for a long time, and Tom was determined
never to feel sorry, if he could help it.
He had nothing to play with, so he walked
up and down the bare floor, singing as loud
as he could. He hoped his mamma and
Archie would hear him in the drawing-room,
and know he was not sorry. After a little
while he began to be tired of singing, and
there was nothing else to do. If he had had
a pencil in his pocket he would have written,
“I’m not a bit sorry!” on the bare white
walls, but he had no pencil, so he went to the
window and looked out. It was so small and
high up, that there was nothing to see but a
piece of the sky and the tops of the trees in