What can I do for you ?" "Nothing, my dear, except to be an attentive daughter--attentive and affectionate and obedient.

Sometimes, Catherine, you are not that." "Oh, never mind now, when you are in trouble, I'd do anything in the world for you when you are in trouble.

You know that." Mrs.Bertram had seated herself.

Catherine knelt now, and took one of her mother's hands between her own.

Insensibly the cold hand was comforted by the warm steadfast clasp.
"You are a good child, Kate," said her mother in an unwonted and gentle voice.