"You have my wife's word, and my daughter's." "Your daughter is the most arrant little liar I ever knew!" The poor father shrank back.

Perhaps he knew, by sad experience, that Aunt Henrietta's condemnation was not altogether without foundation.
His look expressed such unutterable pain that Christian came forward and spoke out strongly, almost angrily.
"It is fear that makes a liar, even as harshness and injustice create deceit and underhandedness.

Love a child and trust it, and if it does wrong, punish it neither cruelly nor unfairly, and it will never tell falsehoods.
Titia will not--she shall not, as long as I am alive to keep her to the truth." Dr.Grey looked fondly at his wile's young, glowing face and even Miss Gascoigne, the hard, worldly woman, viewing all things in her narrow, worldly way, was silenced for the time.

Then she began again, pouring out a torrent of explanations and self-exculpations, which soon resolved themselves into the simple question, What was to be done?
There--she ended.
"Don't ask me to do any thing.

I will not.