You might have made me what you liked.

You might have educated me far better than these teachers, or, at least given me some pride in my studies.

There were so many things I wanted to know that they couldn't teach me; so many times I wanted advice from some one that I could trust.

Colonel Pendleton was very good to me when he came; he always treated me like a princess even when I wore short frocks.

It was his manner that first made me think he knew my family; but I never felt as if I could tell him anything, and I don't think, with all his chivalrous respect, he ever understood me.