I can't hear you say too often that you have learned to like me.

Is it really a pleasure to you to have me in the house?
Have I always behaved well since I have been with you ?" (The one excuse for the act of personation--if excuse there could be--lay in the affirmative answer to those questions.

It would be something, surely, to say of the false Grace that the true Grace could not have been worthier of her welcome, if the true Grace had been received at Mablethorpe House!) Lady Janet was partly touched, partly amused, by the extraordinary earnestness of the appeal that had been made to her.
"Have you behaved well ?" she repeated.

"My dear, you talk as if you were a child!" She laid her hand caressingly on Mercy's arm, and continued, in a graver tone: "It is hardly too much to say, Grace, that I bless the day when you first came to me.

I do believe I could be hardly fonder of you if you were my own daughter." Mercy suddenly turned her head aside, so as to hide her face.