45/49 See if he doesnt!" "If I had as much reason to complain of my childhood as you have, perhaps I should not feel so shocked and disappointed by his turning on me to-night. Surely, when he saw me attacked as I was, he ought to have come to my assistance." "Any stranger would have taken your part. The footman would, if you had asked him. But then, James is not your father." "It seems a very small thing to be bidden to leave the room. But I will never expose myself to a repetition of it." "Quite right. |