Worst of all, he speedily assumed the same attitude towards my daughter, Alice, and spoke to her more than once in a way which, fortunately, she is too innocent to understand.

On one occasion he actually seized her in his arms and embraced her--an outrage which caused his own secretary to reproach him for his unmanly conduct.' "'But why did you stand all this,' I asked.

'I suppose that you can get rid of your boarders when you wish.' "Mrs.Charpentier blushed at my pertinent question.

'Would to God that I had given him notice on the very day that he came,' she said.

'But it was a sore temptation.