arm: her fingers were pink through the holes in her woolly gloves, and
said, 'I think you're very good to forgive us, and we are really very,
very sorry. But we wanted to be like the children in the books--only we
never have the chances they have. Everything they do turns out all
right. But we _are_ sorry, very, very. And I know Oswald wasn't going to
take the half-sovereign. Directly you said that about a tip from an old
boy I began to feel bad inside, and I whispered to H. O. that I wished
we hadn't.'

Then Lord Tottenham stood up, and he looked like the Death of Nelson,
for he is clean shaved and it is a good face, and he said--

'Always remember never to do a dishonourable thing, for money or for
anything else in the world.'

And we promised we would remember. Then he took off his hat, and we
took off ours, and he went away, and we went home. I never felt so
cheap in all my life! Dora said, 'I told you so,' but we didn't mind
even that so much, though it was indeed hard to bear. It was what Lord
Tottenham had said about ungentlemanly. We didn't go on to the Heath for
a week after that; but at last we all went, and we waited for him by the
bench. When he came along Alice said, 'Please, Lord Tottenham, we have
not been on the Heath for a week, to be a punishment because you let us
off. And we have brought you a present each if you will take them to
show you are willing to make it up.'

He sat down on the bench, and we gave him our presents. Oswald gave him
a sixpenny compass--he bought it with my own money on purpose to give
him. Oswald always buys useful presents. The needle would not move
after I'd had it a day or two, but Lord Tottenham used to be an admiral,