I think we helped her before." "It is also very true that she is light, Mrs.Vivian," Bernard observed, "and if you could make her a little heavier, I should be tremendously grateful." Bernard's prospective mother-in-law looked at him a little.
"I don't know whether you are laughing at me--I always think you are.
But I shall not give up Blanche for that.

I never give up any one that I have once tried to help.

Blanche will come back to me." Mrs.Vivian had hardly spoken when the sharp little vibration of her door-bell was heard in the hall.

Bernard stood for a moment looking at the door of the drawing-room.
"It is poor Gordon come to make a scene!" he announced.
"Is that what you mean--that he opposed your marriage ?" asked Mrs.
Vivian, with a frightened air.
"I don't know what he proposes to do with Blanche," said Bernard, laughing.
There were voices in the hall.

Angela had been listening.
"You say she will come back to you, mamma," she exclaimed.