And I really believe he loves me.

We were children together when Mummy was alive; and then he had to go abroad; and has only just come back.

Of course, I've got to think of him, too, as he says.
But then, on the other hand, I don't want to make a mistake.

That would be so terrible, for both of us; and of course I am clever; and there was poor Mummy and Daddy.

I'll tell you all about them one day.