"I am afraid you have rougher ground to steer over than you are aware.

Alone with you, I hope I should have done nay best, remembering the lesson of the leveloo, never to give you the pain of teaching a different one.

But we shall no longer be alone; and you cannot hope to manage seven as you might manage one.

Moreover, these girls have neither had that first experience of your nature which made that lesson so impressive to me, nor the kindly and gentle training, under a mother's care and a father's mild authority, that I had enjoyed.

They would not understand the control that is not enforced.