"I promise," said she, with grave severity; which, after all, inspired the dying woman with faith as in something more stable than life itself,--flickering, flittering, wavering life! "I promise that in any difficulty in which Miss Hale"----
"Call her Margaret!" gasped Mrs. Hale.
"In which she comes to me for help, I will help her with every power I have, as if she were my own daughter. I also promise that if ever I see her doing what I think is wrong"----
"But Margaret never does wrong--not wilfully wrong," pleaded Mrs. Hale. Mrs. Thornton went on as before; as if she had not heard:
"If ever I see her doing what I believe to be wrong--such wrong not touching me or mine, in which case I might be supposed to have an interested motive--I will tell her of it, faithfully and plainly, as I should wish my own daughter to be told."

'I promise,' said she, with grave severity, 'I promise that in any difficulty in which Miss Hale-'
'Call her Margaret!' gasped Mrs. Hale.
'In which she comes to me for help, I will help her with every power I have, as if she were my own daughter. I also promise that if ever I see her doing what I think is wrong-'
'But Margaret never does wrong - not knowingly,' pleaded Mrs. Hale. Mrs. Thornton went on as if she had not heard:
'If ever I see her doing what I believe to be wrong - and it does not involve me or mine - I will tell her of it, faithfully and plainly, as I should wish my own daughter to be told.'
