Alice listened to her father's worldly wisdom with a smile, but she did not attempt to answer him. It was very seldom, indeed, that he took upon himself the labour of lecturing her, or that he gave her even as much counsel as he had given now. "Well, papa, I hope I shall find myself growing towards the light," she said as she got out of the cab. Then he had not entered the house, but had taken the cab on with him to his club.

Alice listened to her father's worldly wisdom with a smile. It was very seldom that he lectured her.
"Well, papa, I hope I shall find myself growing towards the light," she said as she got out of the cab at their house. He continued on to his club.
