And what genuine love-letter can a girl show even to her mother?
But she at once told her of what she had done.

"Mamma, I have written a letter to Harry Annesley." "You have ?" "Yes, mamma; I have thought it right to tell him what you had heard about that night." "And you have done this without my permission,--without even telling me what you were going to do ?" "If I had asked you, you would have told me not." "Of course I should have told you not.

Good gracious! has it come to this, that you correspond with a young gentleman without my leave, and when you know that I would not have given it ?" "Mamma, in this instance it was necessary." "Who was to judge of that ?" "If he is to be my husband--" "But he is not to be your husband.

You are never to speak to him again.
You shall never be allowed to meet him; you shall be taken abroad, and there you shall remain, and he shall hear nothing about you.

If he attempts to correspond with you--" "He will not." "How do you know ?" "I have told him not to write." "Told him, indeed! Much he will mind such telling! I shall give your Uncle Magnus a full account of it all and ask for his advice.