"I knew she intended to do it."
"She tells me that you have tried to dissuade her?"
"Yes; I thought she did not, perhaps, fully know her own mind."
"We must give up the idea that she is a child," he said. "We have been mistaken, probably, about that all along."
Margaret sewed on without answering.
"You are very loyal to her; you don't let me see that you agree with me."
"I didn't suppose that you meant any disparagement, when you said it."
"She tells me that she doesn't care for me any more." He took a book from the table beside him, and looked absently at its title. "We must allow that she has a great facility as regards change."
"She has a great honesty."
Winthrop sat down—until now he had been standing; he threw aside the book. "You certainly can't approve of it," he said,—"such a disposition?"