[Miss Bretherton by Mrs. Humphry Ward]@TWC D-Link bookMiss Bretherton CHAPTER VI 54/73
He naturally would have argued, but I would not have it, and made her rest.
She was quite worn out with the effort, and I do not like this excessive fatigue of hers.
I often wonder whether the life she is leading is not too exciting for her.
This is supposed to be her holiday, and she is really going through more brain-waste than she has ever done in her life before! Paul is throwing his whole energies into one thing only, the training of Miss Bretherton; and he is a man of forty-eight, with an immense experience, and she a girl of twenty-one, with everything to learn, and as easily excited as he is capable of exciting her.
I really must keep him in check. 'Mr.Wallace, when we had sent her home across the canal--their apartment is on the other side, farther up towards the railway station--could not say enough to me of his amazement at the change in her. '"What have you done to her ?" he asked.
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