"But I don't mind very much," said Marjorie, who persisted in
looking on the bright side of everything, "for it will give me a
chance to enjoy this beautiful room better. But, Grandma, I can't
quite make out whether I was disobedient or not. You never told me
not to slide down the roof, did you?"

"No, Marjorie; but your common-sense ought to have told you that.
I should have forbidden it if I had thought there was the
slightest danger of your doing such a thing. You really ought to
have known better."

Grandma's tone was severe, for though she was sorry for the child
she felt that Marjorie had done wrong, and ought to be reproved.

Marjorie's brow wrinkled in her efforts to think out the matter.

"Grandma," she said, "then must I obey every rule that you would
make if you thought of it, and how shall I know what they are?"

Grandma smiled. "As I tell you Midget, you must use your common-
sense and reason in such matters. If you make mistakes the
experience will help you to learn; but I am sure a child twelve
years old ought to know better than to slide down a steep barn
roof. But I suppose Molly put you up to it, and so it wasn't your
fault exactly."

"Molly did suggest it, Grandma, but that doesn't make her the one
to blame, for I didn't have to do as she said, did I?"

"No, Midge; and Molly has behaved very nicely about it. She came