"So your mother has taught you to be punctual to meals.

But, no; boys' appetites teach them to be punctual then, if never at any other time.
"And why, sir ?" he asked severely, "Did my niece not write to me before ?" "I don't know, sir," Charlie said.

"I suppose she did not like--that is, she didn't think--that is--" "Think, sir! Like, sir!" said his uncle.

"What right had she either to think or to like?
Her duty clearly was to have made me acquainted, at once, with all the circumstances.

I suppose I had a right to say whether I approved of my grandnieces going tramping about the world as governesses, or not.