"As you say--why not? I think that you ought to persuade your little boy
to touch his cap to all the mothers in the village. I notice that he
doesn't do it. You take my tip and send him down to Macdonald's school;
he'll soon pick it up."
She went off without a word, and I realised that I had been distinctly
rude to her. Somehow I felt glad that I had been rude to her.