"Oh, go down and stay at Blent. No, I'm serious. You say you're proud. There's a good way of showing good pride. Go and stay in the very house. If you do that, I shall think well of you—and even better than I think now of the prospects."
"I've not been invited."
"Poor girl, she's afraid to invite you! Write and say you're coming."
"She'd go away. Yes, she would. She consents to live there only on condition that I never come. She's told me so."
"I'm too old a woman to know your family! You upset the wisdom of ages, and I haven't time to learn anything new."
"I'm not the least surprised. If I were in her place, I should hate to have her there."
"Nonsense. In a month or two——"
"If anything's certain, it's that I shall never go to Blent as long as my cousin owns it."
"I call it downright wicked."
"We share the crime, she and I. She lays down the law, I willingly obey."