She had never realized, I should think, what it was to be snubbed or found fault with in her life.

She was a motherless child, and had lived with her old grandfather and her young father, and had been very much spoilt.

And they were both snatched away from her, as it were, in a breath; and she alone in the world, with an uncle who was only glad to get rid of her to her stranger guardian.

Well,--she was too young and too bright and too gay to be much downcast for all the old women could do.

She laughed at their scolding, and when they tried severity she appealed to Sir Timothy.