"I suppose so. You know how adorably kind she was to me?"
"I can guess. She is adorably kind to every one," said Kitty, gentle but astute.
"And, you see, I've behaved dishonourably to her."
"No. I don't see that."
"Don't you? Don't you? Why, my father sent me partly as his agent, and all the time she believed I was only working for her."
"Did you behave as your father's agent?"
"No. But I let her slave from morning till night over that catalogue."
"Which she would have done in any case."
"Don't you see that I ought to have backed out of it altogether, in the very beginning?"
"Ah yes—if everybody did what they ought."