Note 21 — Chapter XVII · MY LIFE IN LONDON IN THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES. SOCIAL.

Not quite so good a story as that of another American child who, having been naughty and punished, was sent up to her room by her mother and told to ask for forgiveness. On returning downstairs the mother asked her whether she had done as she had directed? “Oh yes! Mama,” answered the child, “And God said to me, Pray don’t mention it, Miss Perkins!”