She stood erect before him, very pale but firm as a rock.
"And you want me to go away ?" she said.
"Yes, I want you to disappear from this place before you become notorious as your father's daughter.

That would be about the worst reputation which you could carry through life.

Believe me that I wish you well, Diana, and be ruled by me." "I will," she answered, with a kind of despairing resignation.

"It seems very dreary to go back to England to face the world all alone.
But I will do as you tell me." She did not express any sympathy for her father, then languishing under arrest, whereby she proved herself very wicked and unwomanly, no doubt.
But neither womanly virtues nor Christian graces are wont to flourish in the school in which Diana Paget had been reared.

She obeyed Valentine Hawkehurst to the letter, without any sentimental lamentations whatever.