"You know, I don't think anybody ought to ask—no, not princes; and I hope you won't do what Lord Cransford wants merely because you're asked."
"Your father says I ought."
"Papa wants you to do it very much."
"And I should like to do what he wants."
"I should like you to do what he wants, but not because he wants it," said Janet.
Dale turned round to her and said abruptly:
"I'll do it, if you want me to."
Now this was flattering, and Janet could not deny that it gave her pleasure; but she clung to her principles.
"I don't want it—in that sense," she answered. "I should be glad if it seemed to you a right thing to do; but I should be sorry if you did it, unless it did."