"I'm not so big that you can't put me away somewhere.

_That woman_ says I'm so small that I'll never be a grown-up girl, because I can't grow up any more.

Who'd live with a woman like that?
And I shall grow more, isn't it ?" "I daresay," says the professor vaguely.

"But that is not the question to be considered now.

I must beg you to understand, Perpetua, that your staying here is out of the question!" "Out of the---- Oh! I _see,"_ cries she, springing to her feet and turning a passionately reproachful face on his.