He foresaw immediately, I suppose, whither my foolish impulses would lead me; and he asked me--I should rather say he ordered me--under no circumstances whatever to follow him out to South Africa." John remembered the doctor's warning, and said nothing.
"So, you see--I can't go," said Lady Mary.
There was a pause.
"I am bound to say," said John, presently, "that, in Peter's place, I should not have liked my mother, or any woman I loved, to come out to the seat of war.

He showed only a proper care for you in forbidding it.

Perhaps I am less courageous than he, in thinking more of the present benefit you would derive from the voyage and the change of scene, than of the perils and discomforts which might await you, for aught we can foretell now, at the end of it.

Peter certainly showed judgment in telegraphing to you." "Do you really think so?
That it was care for me that made him do it ?" she asked.

A distant doubtful joy sounded in her voice.