.

." But he brushed her feeble explanations away with a little gesture of impatience.

"Oh why, mother ?--Oh why ?" She heard him groan and stretched out her arms.
"Taffy, forgive me--forgive us! We did wrongly, I see--I see it as plain now as you.

But we did it for your sake." "You should have told me.

I was not a child.