Nobody will ever believe now that the entries are voluntary." Miss Wilson's conscience, already smitten by the coarseness and absence of moral force in the echo of her own "You are impertinent," from the mouth of Mr.Jansenius, took fresh alarm.

"The fault book," she said, "is for the purpose of recording self-reproach alone, and is not a vehicle for accusations against others." "I am quite sure that neither Jane nor Gertrude nor I reproached ourselves in the least for going downstairs as we did, and yet you did not blame us for entering that.

Besides, the book represented moral force--at least you always said so, and when you gave up moral force, I thought an entry should be made of that.

Of course I was in a rage at the time, but when I came to myself I thought I had done right, and I think so still, though it would perhaps have been better to have passed it over." "Why do you say that I gave up moral force ?" "Telling people to leave the room is not moral force.

Calling them impertinent is not moral force." "You think then that I am bound to listen patiently to whatever you choose to say to me, however unbecoming it may be from one in your position to one in mine ?" "But I said nothing unbecoming," said Agatha.