I daren't do that.' But even that task Alice at last took upon herself, after another half-hour's discussion.

Alas! she would never again feel towards her brother as before this necessity fell upon her.

Her life had undergone that impoverishment which is so dangerous to elementary natures, the loss of an ideal.
'You'll let me stay over to-morrow ?' she said.

'There's nothing very pleasant to go back to, and I don't see that a day 'll matter.' 'You can stay if you wish.

I'm going to take you to have tea with Adela now.