_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, shan't I ?" "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.

"You mean that I shall be in your way here!" "No, _no_, NO!" cries he, just as impulsively, and decidedly very foolishly; but the sight of her small mortified face has proved too much for him.