Laugh if you like! I don't ask you to pay any heed to what _I_'ve wished and hoped; but just give a thought to your father, and the rest of them at home.

I told him to-night he'd only to trust you, that you never could do anything to make him ashamed of you.

I said so, and I believe it.

Look, Clara! with all my heart I believe it.
But now you've got your way, think of them a little.' 'It isn't your fault if I don't know how bad I am,' said the girl with a half-smile.

That she did not resent his lecture more decidedly was no doubt due to its having afforded new proof of the power she had over him.