"If Edith had only let you alone." "I certainly didn't do much good." "Of course you didn't--you did harm--oh, so much more harm than you know." Into the quiet voice of his daughter crept a note of keen regret.

"I wanted to make her last days in this house a time she could look back on, so that she'd want to come home for help if ever she's in trouble.

She has so little--don't you see ?--of what a woman needs these days.

She has grown up so badly.

Oh, if you'd only let her alone.