"But maybe your grand-mother would rather have this sixpence?"said the lady. And Mrs. Newton's friend, who had just come up, exclaimed,

"Well, my dear, take the lady's sixpence, and let her have theflowers if she wishes for them."

So Fanny held the flowers to the lady, who took them and put thesixpence inside her hand. Fanny wished much to ask for one rose, but shethought it would not be right to do so, when the lady had bought themall: and she looked at them so somewhat longingly that the lady asked ifshe were sorry to part with them.