I want to keep early hours, dress simply, and behave properly no matter what fashionable people do.

You will agree to that, I'm sure, and stand by me through thick and thin for principle's sake." "I will, and begin by showing you that I understand the case.

I don't wonder you are not pleased, for Charlie is too presuming, and you do need someone to help you head him off a bit.

Hey, Cousin ?" "What a way to put it!" And Rose laughed in spite of herself, adding with an air of relief, "That is it, and I do want someone to help me make him understand that I don't choose to be taken possession of in that lordly way, as if I belonged to him more than to the rest of the family.

I don't like it, for people begin to talk, and Charlie won't see how disagreeable it is to me." "Tell him so," was Mac's blunt advice.
"I have, but he only laughs and promises to behave, and then he does it again when I am so placed that I can't say anything.