"Thank you for your scolding, ma'am," she said.

"Shall I write out a hundred lines of Greek?
Or do you think it will be sufficient if I promise never to do it again ?" "You mean it ?" said Flossie.

"Of course you will go on seeing him--visiting them, and all that.

But you won't go gadding about, so that people can talk ?" "Only through the bars, in future," she promised.

"With the gaoler between us." She put her arms round Flossie and bent her head, so that her face was hidden.
Flossie still seemed troubled.