16/21 "Still, perhaps it's better that you shouldn't know." "Oh," said she, with some emotion, "I can't tell if you mean to be nice or not. It's the lazy, feckless people who dislike father, because they're jealous; and they try to make things hard for me. Why should I suffer because he's cleverer than them ?" "You oughn't to suffer. I really don't think people blame you." "They do blame me," Janet insisted. "You doubted if you could trust me just now." This was true enough to embarrass Kit, but he said, "I didn't see why I should talk to you about our business; that was all. |