11/19 Her feelings were divided between dismay and self-reproach. Yet she was faintly amused too--amused at Peter and herself. Her boy had returned to her with sentiments that were surely all that a mother could desire; and yet--yet she felt instinctively that Peter was Peter still; that his thoughts were not her thoughts, nor his ways her ways. Then the self-reproach began to predominate in Lady Mary's mind. How could she criticize her boy, her darling, who had proved himself a son to be proud of, and who had come back to her with a heart so full of love and loyalty? |