But there is nothing in it I tell you.

And what does it matter if no one knows?
Why shouldn't you have all the fun you can get ?" Dinah straightened herself, and passed her hands over her face with an oddly childish gesture.

He behaved as though he had conferred a favour upon her; but yet the horrible feeling of shame lingered.

Her mother's most drastic punishments had never humbled her more completely.
She drew herself from his hold.

"I feel it does matter," she said, her voice pathetically small and shy.