She was very angry, and as she told it, standing up, all trace of sobbing soon disappeared from her voice.

"The fact is," she said, "he does not know his own mind, or what to fear or what not to fear.

He told me that I was never to see Colonel Osborne again." "What is the use, Emily, of your repeating that to Mr.Stanbury ?" "Why should I not repeat it?
Colonel Osborne is papa's oldest friend, and mine too.

He is a man I like very much,--who is a real friend to me.

As he is old enough to be my father, one would have thought that my husband could have found no objection." "I don't know much about his age," said Stanbury.
"It does make a difference.