Pray believe that I will not make you do wrong.

If you won't trust me, can't you trust mamma ?" Of course she went.

When the three ladies entered the drawing-room of the Great House they found that Lady Julia had arrived just before them.

Lady Julia immediately took hold of Lily, and led her apart, having a word or two to say about the clerk in the Income-tax Office.
I am not sure but what the dear old woman sometimes said a few more words than were expedient, with a view to the object which she had so closely at heart.

"John is to be with us the first week in February," she said.