"
"Oh, so much! only--only I'm dreadfully ashamed to look her in the face.
And--O Grandma Elsie, do you think it will break my father's heart when he
hears it all?"
"It will make him very sad indeed, I have no doubt, Max," she answered,
gently, "but if he hears, too, that you have truly repented and given your
heart to God, he cannot fail to be greatly comforted. Tell him the whole
truth, my dear boy, don't try to conceal anything from him."
"It's what I mean to do, Grandma Elsie," he said with a heavy sigh,
"though I'd rather take the worst kind of a flogging. And that's what I'd
get if he was here, for he told me so."
"I am very glad you love your father so well, Max, and that your sorrow is
more for grieving him, and especially for having dishonored and displeased
God, than for the unpleasant consequences to yourself; it gives me great
hope that you will never be guilty of such conduct again.
"Now, I shall go and send your mamma to you; she is in her own rooms, for
she has been too much distressed over her dear boy's sad fall to join the
others at the table or in the drawing-room. She loves you very dearly,
Max.
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