44 AN EVENING AT HOME.

 

influence you. Let him spend the evening
in reading. He must not expect his sisters
to deny themselves all recreation in which —
he cannot or will not participate.”

“He does not. I know he would not
hear to such a thing as my staying at home
on his account.”

“Then why stay ?”

“ Because I feel that I ought to do so.
This is the way I have felt all day, when-
ever I have thought of going. If I were
to go, I know that I would not have a:
moment's enjoyment. He need not know
why I remain at home. To tell him that
I did not wish to go will satisfy his mind.”

“T shall not urge the matter, Helen,”
Mrs. Lindley said, after a silence of some
moments. “You are old enough to judge
in a matter of this kind for yourself. But
I must say, I think you rather foolish.
You will not find Edward ‘disposed to sa-
crifice so much for you.”

“Of that I do not think, mother. Of
that I ought not to think.”