I haven't dared give father the bills, and I can never face mother.

She would never have allowed me to order anything like them.

Well, you know how badly I behaved at the house party, and how nice you all were to me, even when I was so hateful.
"On New Year's Night, when we were coming from Nesbits, Henry Hammond asked me for the class money.

He said he had a chance to treble it, and that it was too good an opportunity to be lost.
"I refused point blank at first, and then he talked and talked in that smooth way of his until I began to think what a fine thing it would be to walk into the class and say, 'Girls, here are fifteen hundred dollars instead of five hundred.' I was feeling awfully cross at you girls just then, because he made me believe that you were slighting me and leaving me out of things.

Besides, all of you had warned me against him, and I wanted to show you that I knew more than you did.
"I didn't promise to give it to him that night, but the more I thought of it the more I inclined toward his views, and the upshot of the matter was that I drew it out of the bank and let him have it." Marian paused and looked piteously at Grace.