Anger History of Jane1 [Fretful]

A few days after these walks and conversations, Mrs Mason heard a great noise in the play-room. She ran hastily to enquire the cause, and found the children crying, and near them, ²[one of the young birds lying on the floor] dead. With great eagerness each of them tried³[, the moment she entered,] to exculpate herself, and prove that the other had killed the bird. Mrs Mason commanded them to be silent; and, at the same time, called an orphan ⁴[whom] she had educated, and desired her to take care of the nest.