It's her coming, this way, before." To which she added with inconsequence: "I'm too sorry for her--of course she can't enjoy it.

But I don't see what perversity rides her.

She needn't have looked it all so in the face--as she doesn't do it, I suppose, simply for discipline.
It's almost--that's the bore of it--discipline to ME." "Perhaps then," said Bob Assingham, "that's what has been her idea.

Take it, for God's sake, as discipline to you and have done with it.

It will do," he added, "for discipline to me as well." She was far, however, from having done with it; it was a situation with such different sides, as she said, and to none of which one could, in justice, be blind.