Of course that was a fib." "Everybody makes excuses of that kind," said Alice.
"But they don't make them to the very people of all others whom they want to know and love.

I was longing to come to you every day.
But I feared I could not come without speaking of him;--and I had determined never to speak of him again." This she said in that peculiar low voice which she assumed at times.
"Then why do it now, Lady Glencora ?" "I won't be called Lady Glencora.

Call me Cora.

I had a sister once, older than I, and she used to call me Cora.

If she had lived--.