'No,' said Phyllis, 'I cannot come to dance, but Ada wants you to
leave off playing. She says the music makes her unhappy, for it
makes her think about to-morrow.'
'Rather selfish, Miss Ada,' said Claude.
'Stay here, Phyllis, now you are come,' said Mr. Mohun, 'I will go
and speak to Ada.'
Phyllis was now captured, and made to take her place opposite to
Reginald; but more than once she sighed under the apprehension that
Ada was receiving a lecture. This was the case; and very little did
poor Ada comprehend the change that had taken place in the conduct of
almost every one towards her; she did not perceive that she was
particularly naughty, and yet she had suddenly become an object of
blame, instead of a spoiled pet. Formerly her little slynesses had
been unnoticed, and her overbearing ways towards Phyllis scarcely
remarked, but now they were continually mentioned as grievous faults.
Esther, her especial friend and comforter, was scarcely allowed to
come into the same room with her; Hannah treated her with a kind of
grave, silent respect, far from the familiarity which she liked;
little Henry's nurse never would talk to her, and if it had not been
for Phyllis, she would have been very miserable.
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