How provoking he used to be! but awfully kind too.

He'll think I ought to do what father tells me.
How can I! It's wrong--it's abominable! Everybody despises us.

And Desmond's dying to be off--to get away from it all--like Aubrey.

He hates it so--he almost hates coming home! It's _humiliating_, and it's not our fault!' Such cries and thoughts ran through her as she walked impetuously up and down, in rebellion against her father, unhappy for her girl friend, and smarting under the coercion put upon her patriotism and her conscience.

For she had only two months before left a school where the influence of a remarkable head-mistress had been directed towards awakening in a group of elder girls, to which Pamela belonged, a vivid consciousness of the perils and sufferings of the war--of the sacredness of the cause for which England was fighting, of the glory of England, and the joy and privilege of English citizenship.