Persuasion Early on the Tuesday morning Hester came down into the breakfast parlour at Puritan Grange, having with difficulty persuaded herself that she would stay the appointed hours in her mother's house.

On the previous evening her mother had, she thought, been very hard on her, and she had determined to go.

She would not stay even with her mother, if her mother insisted upon telling her that she was not her husband's wife.

But during the night she was able to persuade herself to bear what had been already said,--to let it be as though it had been forgotten.

Her mother was her mother.