When Madame Catherine had left them together Pansy kneeled down and hid her head in her stepmother's lap. So she remained some moments,while Isabel gently stroked her hair. Then she got up,averting her face and looking about the room. "Don't you think I've arranged it well? I've everything I have at home."
"It's very pretty; you're very comfortable." Isabel scarcely knew what she could say to her. On the one hand she couldn't let her think she had come to pity her, and on the other it would be a dull mockery to pretend to rejoice with her. So she simply added after a moment: "I've come to bid you good-bye. I'm going to England."