Captain Mauleverer brightened up.
“But if you come to it, I sha’n’t let you speak to me.”
“Won’t you?” He walked slowly towards her.
As Captain Mauleverer went out of the room by one door to go down-stairs and out of the house, Lady Victoria went through the other into the presence of her mother and Mr. Despencer.
SCENE III
THE SLAVE OF ALDERMAN DOBBIN
“Yes, mother?”
Lady Victoria bowed slightly to Despencer, who had risen at her entrance, and walked across to where the marchioness was seated.
The marchioness gazed at her daughter as if she had been a chimney-sweeper.
“You dreadful child! You know this is my day, and you come in like that! Have you no regard for people’s feelings?”
Victoria smiled disdainfully.