Is that the way you mean to behave to Elizabeth?
leave every thing open to her--clothes, books, money; trust her with all your secrets; treat her as your most particular friend ?" "A girl of fifteen would be rather an inconvenient particular friend! And I have happily few secrets to trust her with.

But if I could not trust her with our coffee, tea, sugar, and so on, and bring her up from the very first in the habit of being trusted, I would recommend her being sent away to-morrow." "Very fine talking; and what do you say, Johanna ?--if that is not an unnecessary question after Hilary has given her opinion." "I think," replied the elder sister, taking no notice of the long familiar innuendo, "that in this case Hilary is right.

How people ought to manage in great houses I can not say; but in our small house it will be easier and better not to alter our simple ways.

Trusting the girl--if she is a good girl--will only make her more trustworthy; if she is bad, we shall the sooner find it out and let her go." But Elizabeth did not go.

A year passed; two years; her wages were raised, and with them her domestic position.