aid:

'Giles, I am so ashamed of having behaved so cruelly to you, that I can
never go to your home, and eat the food that you are obliged to labour
so hard for.'

'Master Charles,' said Giles, 'that is because you are so proud.'

'Oh no, no!' sobbed Charles, 'I am not proud now, and I think I shall
never be proud again.' So he kissed Giles, and they both went home to
Dame Bloomfield's cottage together.

When Giles's mother saw Charles, she said: 'Why did did you bring this
proud, cross young gentleman here, Giles?'

Charles, when he heard her say so, thought he should be turned out again
into the cold, and began to cry afresh; but Giles said:

'Dear mother, Master Charles has no home to go to now; he is cold and
hungry; I am sure you will let him stay here, and share my bed and my
supper.'

'He can stay here if he likes,' said Dame Bloomfield; 'but you know,
Giles, we are forced to work hard for what food we have, and I am sure
we cannot afford to maintain Master Charles.'

'Then,' said Giles, 'he shall have my supper to-night; he wants it more
than I do, for he has had no food all day.'

'You may please yourself about that, Giles; but remember, if you give
your food to Master Charles, you must go without yourself.'

'Well,' said Giles, 'I shall feel more pleasure in giving my supper to
Master Charles than in eating it myself.'

So he brought a stool, and, placing it in the warmest corner by the
fire, made Charles sit down, and chafed his cold frozen hands, and tried
to comfort him; for Charles was greatly afflicted when he saw that
everyone hated him; but he knew that it was his own fault, and a just
punishment for his pride and bad conduct.

When Giles brought his basin of hot milk and bread for his supper, he
could not thank him for crying; and he was ashamed to eat it while Giles
went without; but he was so hungry, and the milk looked so nice, that he
did not know how to refuse it; and Giles begged him so earnestly to eat
that at last he did so, and once more felt warm and comfortable.

Then Giles said to him: 'Now, Master Charles, will you go to bed? Mine
is but a coarse, hard bed, but it is very clean.' So he took the lamp to
show Charles the way to the chamber in which he was to sleep.

Charles was surprised at seeing no staircase, but only a ladder. Giles
laughed when he saw how Charles stared, and he said:

'You have been used to live in a grand house, Master Charles, and know
nothing of the