Anne hadn't thought of what she was going to say. The sight of a kind face clouded her mind with fresh emotion. Her lip began to tremble before she could even attempt to speak and she felt a fresh lump in her throat. The girl wrestled against the tears for half a minute or so and then they came anyway. "Oh Mrs. Blacke, I'm so sorry about t' corset and everything." And about crying on the woman's doorstep. But her heart was so full with all the emotions of the morning that she just could not control herself. She looked down and hugged herself, while her shoulders shook. She was such a bad person!
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