text:  I called them into my study after my labours were over with the other pupils and I said to them-- "Dear children ill would it become me to pry into the secrets of my honoured lady the Lady Mallerden; yet may there arise occasions wherein it is needful for one in my situation (parent to the one of you and _in loco parentis_ to the other ) to make perquisition into matters of weight and importance to your well-being even at the risk of appearing inquisitive into other peoples' affairs