" Don't you too work for others? What about your co-operative settlement, and your work on the estate, and your book?..." "Oh, but I feel, and particularly just now--it's your fault," he said, pressing her hand--"that all that doesn't count.

I do it in a way halfheartedly.

If I could care for all that as I care for you!... Instead of that, I do it in these days like a task that is set me.

" "Well, what would you say about papa?" asked Kitty.

" Is he a poor creature then, as he does nothing for the public good?" "He?--no! But then one must have the simplicity, the straightforwardness, the goodness of your father: and I haven't got that.