The Lumber Room
THE LUMBER ROOM
What reasons Nicholas give for not helping the aunt when she fell down in the waterpool
What reasons Nicholas give for not helping the aunt when she fell down in the waterpool
• "I was told I wasn't to go into the gooseberry garden," said Nicholas promptly.
• "Your voice doesn't sound like aunt's," objected Nicholas; "you may be the Evil One tempting me to be disobedient. Aunt often tells me that the Evil One tempts me and that I always yield This time I'm not going to yield."
• "Will there be strawberry jam for tea?" asked Nicholas innocently.
"Certainly there will be," said the aunt, privately resolving that Nicholas should have none of it.
"Now I know that you are the Evil One and not aunt," shouted Nicholas gleefully; "when we asked aunt for strawberry jam yesterday she said there wasn't any. I know there are four jars of it in the store cupboard, because I looked, and of course you know it's there, but she doesn't, because she said there wasn't any. Oh, Devil, you have sold yourself!"
The Lumber Room