EDITH. I am so glad you are found, Lisa; now you shall go home with me. LISA. O, no; my mother is in prison; I must go to her--she'll want me so much. Do let me go. EDITH. Edward, we must carry her there before we go home. EDWARD. It will be useless; we cannot get into the jail at this hour of the evening. EDITH. To-morrow, Lisa, early in the morning. LISA. It is so long till then! EDITH. Tell me your names before I go. “Catharine Hall.” “Sarah Munn.” “You will not forget.” CATHARINE. And my child--you will not forget her. EDITH. I will remember you all, and come to-morrow. Good night. _She holds out her hand; CATHARINE draws back, then takes it. SARAH kisses it._ SCENE 6. _Garden, as before. MRS. LANDOR, EDITH, FANNY, LISA, EDWARD, and Children._ MRS. L. Edith, how much trouble you have given me! Where have you been? Why did you bring that girl back? EDWARD. Where do you think I found her? In the House of Correction. MRS. L. In the House of Correction! My daughter! Edith Landor! EDITH. Mother, I have something to say to you; will you not walk down the path with me? I shall come back soon, Lisa. Be gentle, girls. FIRST GIRL. So you are a gypsy. A pretty game you have been playing! What made you steal Edith's clothes? LISA. I did not steal them; she changed with me. GIRL. That's a likely story. Your mother beat her, and made her give them up. LISA. My mother did not beat her; she never beats any one. O, yes, she punishes Julia sometimes. GIRL. And you very often, I think. FANNY. How can you speak so to her? See, you have made her cry. Never mind, little girl; we know you did not mean to do any harm. I believe what you say. Edith is always getting into mischief in some way. LISA. You will be good to me; you will be like Edith, will you not? EDITH, (_walking with her mother._) You knew all this, and you sent the child away from your home, to wander houseless, and be led into all kinds of evil. You love me, and take care of me, your own child, and yet you let so many children suffer and do wrong, and do nothing to save or help them. O mother! MRS. L. I have been very thoughtless. I have never realized these things until now. EDITH. But, mother, now that you do, you will not send this poor child away. Let her live in Jane's cottage; you know there are spare rooms there; and I can teach her to read and sew, and she will be so good! Will you not let her stay? MRS. L. Yes, Edith, have it as you please. EDITH. Lisa, you are going to live in a nice cottage of ours in the grove, and I shall teach you to read and write, and we will walk and play together, and be so happy. LISA. And mother too? MRS. L. No, I cannot have the gypsy woman about the place. What could she do here? EDITH. But she will not be a gypsy woman if she lives here. She will become like one of us, and be very happy here with Lisa.