8 “Oh! you may trust me, my dear mamma, you know I am becoming a young man, and men must know how to keep secrets, or they would be despised, besides, so dear and loving a mamma as you are to me would doubly make me keep secret anything you confide to me on those terms.” “I will trust you, my darling boy, but you will at once see by what I shall do, how completely I sacrifice myself to do you good.” Upon this, she threw off her robe, and sprang into bed by my side. “Oh! how nice