"But if she outgrows all her principles, I hope, at any rate, she won't outgrow her sharp tongue.

I liked her ever since she first came to this house, ten years ago, with Lady Susan Gresley.

I remember saying that Captain Pratt; who called while she was here, was a 'bounder.' And Miss Gresley said she did not think he was quite a bounder, only on the boundary-line.

If you knew Captain Pratt, that describes him exactly." "I wish she had not said it," said Rachel, with a sigh.

"She makes trouble for herself by saying things like that.