You promised my father that you would show your work to no one before him, but believe my words, if he were here he would give you back the pledge and lead me himself to the last production of your study.

Compassion would compel you disobliging fellows to yield, if you could only imagine how curiosity tortures us women.

We can conquer it where more indifferent matters are concerned.

But here!--it need not make you vainer than you already are, but except my father, you are dearest in all the world to me.

And then, only listen! In my character as priestess of Demeter I hereby release you from your vow, and thus from any evil consequences of your, moreover, very trivial guilt; for a father and daughter who live together, as I do with your uncle, are just the same as one person.