Kate followed her mother to the hall. There she spoke in a hushed voice. She didn't want her father to overhear for the had the feeling that this was a secret between mother and daughter. She also didn't want her father to find out she had spoken rudely to Ben Ward in the first place. "'E said 'e forgives me and he was too quick in anger. And Anne and I can play again if I promise to behave an' not show 'er a bad example, but she can't come to our house... And I didn't manage to give 'er the note. But now that we can be friends again, I can tell 'er later."