"When the twins reached the store, there were several customers ahead
of them; so they had to wait their turn. It was nearing supper time
when they came out of the store with their bundles. The rude boys had
waited outside for them all that time; and the twins gave them some of
their candy.

"When Daisy and Dan reached home, they were much surprised to find a
visitor there. It was the old lady whom they had treated so unkindly.
Mother was crying, as she bathed the hand that had been hurt by Dan's rock.

"'Children,' she said, 'this is your dear grandmother who has come to
see you. She came on an earlier train than she expected; and she inquired
the way, and walked out from the station alone. Some rude children treated
her very unkindly on the way. You will have to very good to her, to make
up for it.'

"'Well, well,' said Grandma kindly, 'is this Daisy and Dan? I should
never have taken them to be my grandchildren.'

"The twins expected her to add, 'So _you_ are the naughty children who
threw stones at me.' But she did not say it; and Daisy and Dan hurried
out of the room as quickly as they could.

"So the good times the children had expected to have with their grandma
were spoiled in the very beginning. After that, whenever they went into
the room where she was, they felt very uncomfortable.

"'I don't understand why the twins act so strangely,' said Mother one
day, as she and Grandma sat mending together. 'I am really ashamed of
them. They had planned to do so many things to make you happy during