'I hope not.'
'But it was, Frank; and therefore I ought to have made it up to me
now. It was very bad to be alone here, particularly when I felt
that papa always looked at me as though I were a sinner. He did
not mean it, but he could not help looking at me like that. As
there was nobody to whom I could say a word.'
'It was pretty much the same with me.'
'Yes; but you were not offending a father who could not keep
himself from looking reproaches at you. I was like a boy at school
who had been put into Coventry. And then they sent me to Lady
Cantrip!'
'Was that very bad?'
'I do believe that if I were a young woman with a well-ordered
mind, I should feel myself very much indebted to Lady Cantrip. She
had a terrible task of it. But I could not teach myself to like
her. I believe she knew all through that I should get my way at
last.'
'That ought to have made you friends.'
'But yet she tried everything she could. And when I told her about
that meeting up at Lord Grex's, she was so shocked! Do you
remember that?'
'Do I remember it!'
'Were you not shocked?' This question was not to be answered by
any word.
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