"Am I always to be curbed and kept down?" demanded Caroline, a little passionately.
"For his sake, yes; and still more for your own. I tell you, if you showed yourself now you would repent it an hour hence, and so would Robert."
"You think he would not like it, Shirley?"
"Far less than he would like our stopping him to say good-night, which you were so sore about."
"But that was all play; there was no danger."
"And this is serious work; he must be unmolested."
"I only wish to go to him because he is my cousin--you understand?"

"Am I always to be curbed and kept down?" demanded Caroline passionately.
"For his sake, yes; and still more for your own. I tell you, if you showed yourself now you would repent it an hour hence, and so would Robert."
"I only wish to go to him because he is my cousin - you understand?"
