Now I must live up to them, because my contract is legal, while Father's is not.

I would have taught the school for you, in the circumstances, but since I can't, so far as I am concerned, the arrangement I have made is much better.

The thing that really hurts the worst, aside from disappointing you, is that Father says I was not honest in what I did." "But what DID you do ?" cried Nancy Ellen.
So Kate told them exactly what she had done.
"Of course you had a right to your own letter, when you could see the address on it, and it was where you could pick it up," said Robert Gray.
Kate lifted dull eyes to his face.
"Thank you for so much grace, at any rate," she said.
"I don't blame you a bit," said Nancy Ellen.

"In the same place I'd have taken it myself." "You wouldn't have had to," said Kate.

"I'm too abrupt--too much like the gentleman himself.