PENANCE
Miss Matthews' cold proved to be bronchitis, and Bettina insisted on nursing her.
"Please let me," she said to Anthony the morning after her flight with Justin. "I suppose I'm in disgrace, anyhow, and this shall be my penance. Only it won't be very severe punishment, for I shall love to take care of her."
"What good is penance if you aren't penitent? I'm perfectly sure that if that young rascal should ask you to go again you'd go."
"It was glorious."
"But very dangerous."
She shrugged. "You do dangerous things every day. Doesn't he, Sophie?"
"Of course."
"That's different. I do such things to help others."
"And I do them to please myself."