She thinks me a child still, and treats me as though I were fifteen.

What can I do ?" Carrington said he had thought of speaking to Mrs.Lee himself, but he did not know what to say, and if he offended her, he might drive her directly into Ratcliffe's arms.

But Sybil thought she would not be offended if he went to work in the right way.

"She will stand more from you than from any one else.

Tell her openly that you--that you love her," said Sybil with a burst of desperate courage; "she can't take offence at that; and then you can say almost anything." Carrington looked at Sybil with more admiration than he had ever expected to feel for her, and began to think that he might do worse than to put himself under her orders.