She was not quite sure whether she ought to talk to her cousin.

Nevertheless, she obeyed the stronger personality.
"Of course I know," Stella said, spreading herself out on a sofa, and smiling in amusement at the other's slight embarrassment, "that I am in disgrace with my beloved parent, and that you are half afraid to talk to me.

Still, you must remember that you owe me a little consideration, for you have taken my place, and turned me out into the cold world." "You must not talk like that, please," Virginia said quietly.

"You know very well that I have done nothing of the sort.

When my uncle sent for me, I had no idea that you were not still living with him." "I lived with him for three years," Stella said, "after I had come back from Europe.