But it is to be understood that such advantages are to be given to her only to fit her to be a governess.

I am anxious that every one should be good to her, but I do not intend her to have such luxuries as would but prepare her for great unhappiness later on in her life." "Hetty will never get on with that sort of thing," said Phyllis.

"She is too proud and too impertinent." "My dear Phyllis, I believe she has a good heart; and she has been, and will be, severely tried.

Any failure of generosity on the part of my good little girl will disappoint me sadly." Phyllis closed her lips with an expression which meant that for reasons of propriety she would say no more, but that nothing could prevent her from feeling that justice and right were on her side; that she had a better apprehension of the matter in question than mother or father, or any one in the world.
When Hetty arrived that afternoon she was led straight into the school-room, where tea was just ready, Mrs.Enderby judging that it would be well to set her to work at once, giving her no time for moping.

When she appeared, looking pale and sad in her black frock, her eyes heavy and red with weeping, even Phyllis was touched, and the school-room tea was partaken of in peace and almost in silence.