Here's something I must tell you about.

What do you think mother says?
I've to go back home again at once.' 'What's the reason ?' Emmeline inquired, knowing not whether to be glad or sorry.
'I'll read it to you:--"Dear Lou," she says, "you've made a great deal of trouble, and I hope you're satisfied.

Things are all upside down, and I've never seen dada"-- that's Mr.Higgins, of course--"I've never seen dada in such a bad temper, not since first I knew him.

Mr.B."-- that's Mr.Bowling, you know--"has told him plain that he doesn't think any more of Cissy, and that nothing mustn't be expected of him."-- Oh what sweet letters mother does write!--"That was when dada went and asked him about his intentions, as he couldn't help doing, because Cissy is fretting so.

It's all over, and of course you're the cause of it; and, though I can't blame you as much as the others do, I think you _are_ to blame.