"'A benefit upbraided forfeits thanks.' I should have done quite the same for any one supposed to be in danger and distress." "What was it ?" asked Lulu; "nobody told me he had done anything." "He was out for hours in all that storm, hunting you," replied Zoe, with a proudly admiring glance at her husband.
"I'm very much obliged," said Lulu, her voice softening.

"And sorry you suffered on my account," she added.
"I did not suffer anything worth mentioning," he responded; "but your mamma was sorely distressed--thinking you might be in the sea--and, in consequence, had a dreadful headache all night.

And since such dire consequences may follow upon your disregard for rules and lawful authority, Lulu, I insist that you shall be more amenable to them.
"I believe you think that when your father and grandpa are both away you can do pretty much as you please; but you shall not while I am about.

I won't have my mother's authority set at defiance by you or any one else." "Who wants to set it at defiance ?" demanded Lulu, wrathfully.

"Not I, I am sure.