I am afraid I ought to place you in a boarding-school at once, before I am ordered away." "O papa, don't!" she begged.

"I'll try to behave better." "You must promise more than that," he said; "promise me that you will yield to the authority of your mamma and her mother and grandfather as if it were mine; obeying their orders and submitting to any punishment they may see fit to inflict, just as if it were my act." "Papa, have you said they might punish me ?" she asked, with a look of wounded pride.
"Yes; I have full confidence in their wisdom and kindness.

I know they will not abuse the authority I give them, and I have told them they may use any measures with my children that they would with their own in the same circumstances.

Are you ready to give the promise I require ?" "Papa, it is too hard!" "The choice is between that and being sent to boarding-school." "Oh, it's so hard!" she sobbed.
"Not hard at all if you choose to be good," her father said.

"In that case you will have a delightful life at Ion.