They have always seemed to like me--not very much, you know, because they thought I wasn't quiet and ladylike enough.

Still I don't think they really disliked me." "No, I think in their way they liked you, Mabel; and perhaps if Mr.
Penfold had half left his property to you, divided the other half between them the will would have been found.

But they certainly did not like Ralph Conway.

They disliked him partly no doubt for himself, but principally on account of a wrong which I believe they once did to his mother.

Now, it is in human nature, Mabel, that you may forgive a wrong done to you, but it is very hard to forgive a person you have wronged.