Your second question you have no right to ask.

You are sending me away--" "No right, Hetty ?" "You are sending me away," Hetty repeated, and seemed to be considering.

After a pause she added slowly: "You others are all under papa's thumb, and you make me a coward.

But I will promise you this"-- here her words began to drag--"and to strengthen me no less than to ease your fears, I promise it, mother.

If the worst come to the worst, it shall not be at Kelstein that I choose it, but here among you all.