Now you shall hear the story; and bear in mind that you are the only person to whom I have ever told it.

I never tried to defend myself when I was vilified on all hands.

Probably the attempt would have been useless; and then it would certainly have increased the odium in which I stood.
I think I'll tell cousin Mary the truth some day; it would be good for her.' The listener looked uneasy, but curious.
'Well now, I was staying in the summer with some friends of ours at a little place called Upchurch, on a branch line from Oxford.

The people were well-to-do--Goodall their name--and went in for philanthropy.

Mrs.
Goodall always had a lot of Upchurch girls about her, educated and not; her idea was to civilize one class by means of the other, and to give a new spirit to both.