“ Is she more self-willed than I? ”
“ You are not self-willed, Lydia; except that you are deaf to advice. ”
“ You mean that I seldom follow it. And so you think I had better employ a professional companion — a decayed gentlewoman — than save this young girl from going out as a governess and beginning to decay at twenty-three? ”
“ The business of getting a suitable companion, and the pleasure or duty of relieving poor people, are two different things, Lydia. ”
“ True, Lucian. When will Miss Goff call? ”
“ This evening. Mind; nothing is settled as yet. If you think better of it on seeing her you have only to treat her as an ordinary visitor and the subject will drop. For my own part, I prefer her sister; but she will not leave Mrs. Goff, who has not yet recovered from the shock of her h
