"Then I'd coax him," said Lucy. "Come, I'll go with you, and we
will both try."
"No," replied Elsie, with a hopeless shake of the head, "I have
found out already that my papa never breaks his word; and nothing
could induce him to let me go, now that he has once said I should
not. But you will have to leave me, Lucy, or you will be too
late."
"Good-bye, then," said Lucy, turning to go; "but I think it is a
great shame, and I shan't half enjoy myself without you."
"Well now, Horace, I think you might let the child go," was
Adelaide's somewhat indignant rejoinder to her brother, as the two
little girls disappeared; "I can't conceive what reason you can
have for keeping her at home, and she looks so terribly
disappointed. Indeed, Horace, I am sometimes half inclined to
think you take pleasure in thwarting that child."
"You had better call me a tyrant at once, Adelaide," said he
angrily, and turning very red; "but I must beg to be permitted to
manage my own child in my own way; and I cannot see that I am
under any obligation to give my reasons either to you or to any
one else.
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