"Young and warm hearted--I was once like you!" She controlled that outburst of despair.

Her next words were spoken in steadier tones.

"You _will_ have it--you _shall_ have it!" she said.

"Some one (in this house or out of it; I don't know which) has betrayed me to the mistress of the school.

A wretch in my situation suspects everybody, and worse still, does it without reason or excuse.
I heard you girls talking when you ought to have been asleep.