"It will be for you to see that I don＇t then," said Isabel.
"Yes; I would make an effort to keep you." And her companion looked at her gravely. "When I say I should like to be your age I mean with your qualities—frank,generous, sincere like you. In that case I should have made something better of my life."
"What should you have liked to do that you＇ve not done?"
Madame Merle took a sheet of music—she was seated at the piano and had abruptly wheeled about on the stool when she 昀rst spoke—and mechanically turned the leaves. "I＇m very ambitious!" she at last replied.