Mamma does what I tell her, except when Hugh tells her something else.

I was afraid, because, down here, knowing nothing of the world, I didn't wish that we, little people, should be mixed up in the quarrels and disagreements of those who are so much bigger." "I don't know who it is that is big in this matter." "You are big,--at any rate by comparison.

But now it must go on.

The house has been taken, and my fears are over as regards you.

What you observe in mamma is only the effect, not yet quite worn out, of what I said before you came.