10/32 "You have, I see, taken a great liking for them." "Oh! well--I don't know," said Marcella, with a shrug, and something of a proud reticence. "Mr.Harden is very kind--but--he doesn't seem to have thought much about things." She never talked about her London friends to her mother, if she could help it. The sentiments of life generally avoided Mrs.Boyce when they could. Marcella being all sentiment and impulse, was constantly her mother's victim, do what she would. But in her quiet moments she stood on the defensive. |