" "Don't be selfish." "Do unto
him as you would he should do unto you,"-that is, I think of his
welfare. Though I had him in my net, I let him go. Shall I go to
heaven for doing that?'
'I don't know,' said Miss Cassewarey, who was much perturbed by
the news she had just heard as to be unable to come to any opinion
on the point just raised.
'Or mayn't I rather go to the other place? From how much
embarrassment should I have relieved my father! What a friend I
should have made for Percival! How much I might have been able to
do for Frank! And then what a wife I should have made him!'
'I think you would.'
'He'll never get another half so good; and he'll be sure to get
one before long. It is a sort of tenderness that is quite
inefficacious. He will become a prey, as I should have made him a
prey. But where is there another who will treat him so well?'
'I cannot bear to hear you speak of yourself in that way.'
'But it is true. I know the sort of girl he should marry. In the
first place she should be two years younger, and four years
fresher.
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