"I shall go," said Ruby. "I'm not going to be kept here a prisoner for any one. I can go when I please. You wait, Felix, and I'll be down in a minute." The girl, with a nimble spring, ran upstairs, and began to change her dress without giving herself a moment for thought.
"She don't come back no more here, Sir Felix," said Mrs. Pipkin, in her most solemn tones. "She ain't nothing to me, no more than she was my poor dear husband's sister's child. There ain't no blood between us, and won't be no disgrace. But I'd be loth to see her on the streets."
"Then why won't you let me bring her back again?"

"I shall go," said Ruby. "I'm not going to be kept here a prisoner. I can go when I please. You wait, Felix, and I'll be down in a minute." The girl ran nimbly upstairs, and began to change her dress.
"She don't come back here no more, Sir Felix," said Mrs. Pipkin, in her most solemn tones. "But I'd be loth to see her on the streets."
"Then why won't you let me bring her back again?"
