Now it happened that, all this time, Rollo"s mother was sitting in a

little bedroom, which had a door opening into the entry where Lucy and
Rollo had been reading, and she heard all the conversation
Now it happened that, all this time, Rollo"s mother was sitting in a
little bedroom, which had a door opening into the entry where Lucy and
Rollo had been reading, and she heard all the conversation. She knew
that though Rollo was generally a good boy, and was willing to know his
faults, and often endeavored to correct them, still that he was, like
all other boys, prone to selfishness and to vanity, and she thought that
she must take some way to show him clearly what the truth really was,
about his disinterestedness.