Is she always so obstinate ?" Phyllis hesitated.
"I think she has a pretty strong will of her own," she said.

"I am afraid she will not yield." "Well, my dear, you know her better than I do, and it is nice of you not to be too ready to blame her.

But I like little girls who do as their elders bid them.

And I confess I expected to find her agreeable when I invited her here this evening." Now if Phyllis had been as generous as she would have liked to believe herself she would have said, "I know my mother does not approve of Hetty's performances, and Hetty knows it too.

Perhaps this is why she refuses." But Phyllis, quite unconsciously to herself, was pleased to hear Hetty blamed, and was willing to think that she ought to have put all her scruples aside in order to oblige Mrs.Enderby's friend.