If I could only have got her away before she heard those dreadful words----" "There! there!" I said, "don't lose your head.

I can't call to mind that anything happened to alarm Rosanna." "Nothing to alarm her, father.

But Mr.Franklin said he took no interest whatever in her--and, oh, he said it in such a cruel voice!" "He said it to stop the Sergeant's mouth," I answered.
"I told her that," says Penelope.

"But you see, father (though Mr.
Franklin isn't to blame), he's been mortifying and disappointing her for weeks and weeks past; and now this comes on the top of it all! She has no right, of course, to expect him to take any interest in her.

It's quite monstrous that she should forget herself and her station in that way.