Give her time to be sorry! Please give her time!" Mr.Lorimer glanced at the clock.

"She has already had nine hours," he observed.

"I shall give her three more." "And then ?" said Avery.
His eyes travelled up to her troubled face.

"And if by then," he said deliberately, "she has not come to me to express her penitence, I shall be reluctantly compelled to repeat the punishment." "You will drive the child out of her senses if you do!" Avery exclaimed.
He shrugged his shoulders.

"My dear Mrs.Denys, permit me to remind you that I have had considerable experience in the upbringing of children." "And they are all afraid of you," Avery said.
He smiled.