I am very fond of sewing, and that is a nice easy piece.

Shall you mind if I sing to you and Kitty a little ?' I need not have asked the question when I saw the fretted look pass from Miss Locke's face.
'It is the greatest pleasure Kitty and I have, next to going to church,' she said humbly.

'Your voice does sound so sweet; it soothes like a lullaby.

It is my belief,' speaking under her breath so that the child should not hear her, 'that she is just trying to punish herself by sending you away.' I thought perhaps this might be the case, for who could understand all the perversities of a diseased mind?
But if Phoebe's will was strong for evil, mine was stronger still to overcome her for her own good.

I was determined on two things: first, that I would not leave the house without seeing her; and, secondly, that nothing should induce me to stay with her after this reception.