It's all wrong, Ad, all wrong.

Even if he loves you, and it is to be hoped he does, he will respect you less when he knows how you deceived him." "Hadn't you better interfere and set the matter right ?" asked 'Lina, now really aroused.
"I did think of doing so once," Hugh rejoined, but ere he could say more, 'Lina grasped his arm fiercely, her face dark with passion as she exclaimed: "Hugh, if you meddle, you'll rue the day.

It's my own affair, and I know what I'm doing." "I do not intend to meddle, though I encouraged Adah in her wild plan of going to Terrace Hill, because I thought they would learn from her just how rich we are.

But Adah has foolishly taken another name, and says nothing of Spring Bank.

I don't like it, neither does Miss Johnson.
Indeed, I sometimes think she is more anxious than I am." "Miss Johnson," and 'Lina spoke disdainfully, "I'd thank her to mind her own business.