There was one member of the Chapman family, however, not pleased with
the way things were going, and that was Mattie. When the older Chapmans
had taken their guest into the house, she embraced the opportunity to
have a talk with Tite, and reproached him for what she had seen him do.

"Now, Tite," said she, looking earnestly into his face, "if you have any
respect for me, never walk behind a man, carrying his carpet-bag--never!
And such a looking man as that! You are as good as he, or anybody else,
and if you don't think yourself so, other people wont think so for you.
Never think you are not as good as somebody. Don't act as a help for
anybody, for if you do you will be set down for nobody all your life."

At first Tite hardly knew what to say in reply. The nature of the rebuke
showed the deep interest Mattie felt in him. "If I had taken pay," said
Tite, hesitating, "'twould have been different. I carried his
carpet-bag, I know, but then I did it as a favor; and, as you saw,
declined to take the sixpence he offered me. But I'll do as you say,
Mattie, and won't do so again; for I want to please you, you know." The
words fell nervously from Tite's lips, and there was a throbbing at the
heart he could not suppress.

"My mother," resumed Mattie, in a frank, girlish manner, "brought this
man Warren Holbrook into the house at Dogtown, and he got father into
such a deal of trouble. He was always quarrelling with somebody. He got
up a disturbance in the church. And then the church all went to pieces.
Oh, what a church it was! And mother thinks he's such a nice man. I
don't. Don't carry his carpet-bag again, Tite. Don't make a menial of
yourself for anybody." After saying this she walked part of the way home
with Tite, and then they parted with a sweet good-night.