"Instead--you slip away from the house and meet a young man--and permit him to take _liberties_ with you." Susan braced herself.

"I did not go to the cemetery to meet him," she replied; and that new or, rather, newly revived tenacity was strong in her eyes, in the set of her sweet mouth.
"He saw me on the way and followed.

I did let him kiss me--once.
But I had the right to." "You have disgraced yourself--and us all." "We are going to be married." "I don't want to hear such foolish talk!" cried Mrs.Warham violently.

"If you had any sense, you'd know better." "He and I do not feel as you do about my mother," said the girl with quiet dignity.
Mrs.Warham shivered before this fling.

"Who told you ?" she demanded.
"It doesn't matter; I know." "Well, miss, since you know, then I can tell you that your uncle and I realize you're going the way your mother went.