It was not right for you to run away, in the first place." "Yes, I was very naughty to run away," Ellen said, starting.

She rose, and held out her hand.

"I hope you will forgive me," she said.
"I am very grateful, and it will make my father and mother happier than anything else could, but indeed I don't think--it is so long ago--that there was any need--" "I do, for the sake of my own distress over it," Cynthia said, shortly.

"Suppose, now, we drop the subject, my dear.

There is a taint in the New England blood, and you have it, and you must fight it.