17/20 It 's only lately I have been so. When you go away I shall be horribly ashamed." "If the air of Baden has such an effect upon you," said Bernard, "it is only a proof the more that you need the solicitous attention of your friends." "That may be; but, as I told you just now, I have no confidence--none whatever, in any one or anything. Therefore, for the present, I shall withdraw from the world--I shall seclude myself. Let us go on being quiet, mamma. Three or four days of it have been so charming. |