"What is the matter ?" "O papa! are you--are you going to punish me for being so naughty this evening ?" she asked, hanging her head while her cheeks grew red.
"That was not my intention in coming in here," he said.

"But, Lulu, your wilfulness is a cause of great anxiety to me.

I hardly know what to do with you.

I am very loath to burden our kind friends--Grandpa Dinsmore and Grandma Elsie--with so rebellious and unmanageable a child, for it will be painful to them to be severe with you, and yet I see that you will compel them to it." "I won't be punished by anybody but you! Nobody else has a right!" burst out Lulu.
"Yes, my child, I have given them the right, and the only way for you to escape punishment is not to deserve it.

And if you prove too troublesome for them, you are to be sent to a boarding-school, and that, you will understand, involves separation from Max and Gracie, and life among total strangers." "Papa, you wouldn't, you couldn't be so cruel!" she said, bursting into tears and hiding her face on his breast.
"I hope you will not be so cruel to yourself as to make it necessary," he said.