But she had pledged herself to her father, and on no consideration would she break that pledge.

She went on to say that after what had passed she thought that they had better not meet.

In such meetings there could be no satisfaction, and must be much pain.

But he had her full permission to use any arguments that he could use with her father.

On the evening of that day she told her father all that had passed,--omitting no detail either of what she had said or of what had been said to her,--adding a positive assurance of obedience, but doing so with a severe solemnity and apparent consciousness of ill-usage which almost broke her father's heart.