There now, am I sensible?
I suppose I am, for your grim features are relaxing into a smile.
That's right.

But now listen to this.

I think your father would come round sooner, if he were not irritated every day by the knowledge of your visits to me.

If you went away, he would know that we should write to each other yet he would forget the exact time when; but now he knows as well as I do where you are when you are up here; and I fancy, from what Erminia says, it makes him angry the whole time you are away." Frank was silent.

At last he said: "It is rather provoking to be obliged to acknowledge that there is some truth in what you say.