You've had your own way a long time, and you've grown crochetty and harsh and disagreeable; but there are good lines around your mouth and eyes, and your nature's liable to soften and get sunny again.

I'm sure I hope so.

So, if you'd like me to stay a few days, I'll take off my things and make myself at home.
But I'm out of the race for your money, and I'll pay my way from now on just as I have always done." Silas Watson watched Aunt Jane's face during this speech with an anxious and half-frightened expression upon his own.

No one but himself had ever dared to talk to Jane Merrick as plainly as this before, and he wondered how she would accept such frankness from a young girl.
But Patricia's manner was not at all offensive.

Her big eyes were as frank as her words, but they glistened with kindliness and good nature, and it was evident the girl had no doubt at all of her aunt's reply, for she straightway begun to take off her hat.
The invalid had kept her eyes sternly fastened upon her young niece ever since the beginning of the interview.