It was true what you said to me, that I was too young to be advised, and I am hoping you will remember I was just a child.

I would not like to lose your friendship, at all events." She began this very pale; but before she was done, the blood was in her face like scarlet, so that not her words only, but her face and the trembling of her very hands, besought me to be gentle.

I saw for the first time, how very wrong I had done to place the child in that position, where she had been entrapped into a moment's weakness, and now stood before me like a person shamed.
"Miss Drummond," I said, and stuck, and made the same beginning once again, "I wish you could see into my heart," I cried.

"You would read there that my respect is undiminished.

If that were possible, I should say it was increased.