authority. But she was not too dutiful to cast a reproach upon him, when he was so stern to her. "You have been so little with me, papa."
"That is true," he said, after a pause. "That is true. It has been a fault, and I will mend it. It is a reason for forgiveness, and I will forgive you. But you must tell me that there shall be an end to this."
"No, papa."
"What do you mean?"
"That as I love Mr. Tregear, and as I have told him so, and as I have promised him, I will be true to him. I cannot let there be an end to it."
"You do not suppose that you will be allowed to see him again?"
"I hope so."
"Most assuredly not. Do you write to him?"
"No, papa."
"Never?"