"Perhaps I could go too." But Elizabeth promptly negatived this.
"You will do nothing of the kind," she returned decidedly; "I shall have you falling ill on my hands.

Besides, you must be at the Wood House, in case Cedric comes;" and as Dinah perceived the force of this argument, she said no more about accompanying her sister.
Malcolm, however, was not so easily satisfied.

"Are you sure that you had better do this ?" he said rather gravely.

"Would it not be wiser to leave Mrs.Godfrey to deal with Miss Jacobi ?" But Elizabeth seemed quite indignant.
"Mr.Herrick, I did not expect this from you," she said severely.

"I thought we were to do good to our enemies--and this poor soul is not our enemy after all.