`` Yes , '' admitted Una . `` It is such a pity it changes people so much to be made stepmothers . '' `` I do n't believe it does , '' said Faith loyally . CHAPTER XXXI . CARL DOES PENANCE `` I do n't see why we should be punished at all , '' said Faith , rather sulkily . `` We did n't do anything wrong . We could n't help being frightened . And it wo n't do father any harm . It was just an accident . '' `` You were cowards , '' said Jerry with judicial scorn , `` and you gave way to your cowardice . That is why you should be punished . Everybody will laugh at you about this , and that is a disgrace to the family . '' `` If you knew how awful the whole thing was , '' said Faith with a shiver , `` you would think we had been punished enough already . I would n't go through it again for anything in the whole world . '' `` I believe you 'd have run yourself if you 'd been there , '' muttered Carl . `` From an old woman in a cotton sheet , '' mocked Jerry . `` Ho , ho , ho ! '' `` It did n't look a bit like an old woman , '' cried Faith . `` It was just a great , big , white thing crawling about in the grass just as Mary Vance said Henry Warren did . It 's all very fine for you to laugh , Jerry Meredith , but you 'd have laughed on the other side of your mouth if you 'd been there .
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