"My father would never allow you to go to the theatre; and the George Smiths are such old fogeys--they would be sure to tell." "How do you go, then?
Does my father give you leave ?" "Oh! many things are right for men which are not for girls." Jemima sat and pondered.

Richard wished he had not been so confidential.
"You need not name it," said he, rather anxiously.
"Name what ?" said she, startled, for her thoughts had gone far afield.
"Oh, name my going once or twice to the theatre!" "No, I shan't name it!" said she.

"No one here would care to hear it." But it was with some little surprise, and almost with a feeling of disgust, that she heard Richard join with her father in condemning some one, and add to Mr Bradshaw's list of offences, by alleging that the young man was a playgoer.

He did not think his sister heard his words.
Mary and Elizabeth were the two girls whom Ruth had in charge; they resembled Jemima more than their brother in character.

The household rules were occasionally a little relaxed in their favour, for Mary, the elder, was nearly eight years younger than Jemima, and three intermediate children had died.