I must get some Monypenny woman to take you till the funeral is over, and after that--" "I won't go," said Grizel, determinedly, "I shall stay with mamma till she is buried." He was not accustomed to contradiction, and he stamped his foot.

"You shall do as you are told," he said.
"I won't!" replied Grizel, and she also stamped her foot.
"Very well, then, you thrawn tid, but at any rate I'll send in a woman to sleep with you." "I want no one.

Do you think I am afraid ?" "I think you will be afraid when you wake up in the darkness, and find yourself alone with--with it." "I sha'n't, I shall remember at once that she is to be buried nicely in the cemetery, and that will make me happy." "You unnatural--" "Besides, I sha'n't sleep, I have something to do." His curiosity again got the better of the doctor.

"What can you have to do at such a time ?" he demanded, and her reply surprised him: "I am to make a dress." "You!" "I have made them before now," she said indignantly.
"But at such a time!" "It is a black dress," she cried, "I don't have one, I am to make it out of mamma's." He said nothing for some time, then "When did you think of this ?" "I thought of it weeks ago, I bought crape at the corner shop to be ready, and--" She thought he was looking at her in horror, and stopped abruptly.

"I don't care what you think," she said.
"What I do think," he retorted, taking up his hat, "is, that you are a most exasperating lassie.