I should consider myself to be very selfish if I allowed my grief to interfere with your amusements." "But, aunt, I don't care for such amusements." "That's nonsense, my dear.

You ought to care for them.

How are you to settle yourself in life if you don't care for them ?" "My dear aunt, I am settled." "Settled!" said Mrs Greenow, astounded, as though there must have been some hidden marriage of which she had not heard.

"But that's nonsense.

Of course you're not settled; and how are you to be, if I allow you to shut yourself up in such a place as this,--just where a girl has a chance ?" It was in vain that Kate tried to stop her.