Don't be stampeded by such threats.

Disprove them by your calm self-control under provocation; disprove them by your discretion and self-confidence.

Give nobody a single possible reason for gossip.

And above all, Alixe, don't become worried and morbid over anything you might dread as inheritance, for you are as sound to-day as you were when I first met you; and you shall not doubt that you could ever be anything else.

Be the woman you can be! Show the pluck and courage to make the very best out of life.