"Why not you as well as other people?"
"Because, unlike other people, we have become devoted to one spot. The property belongs to you."
"I hope so."
"But the obligations of the property have been, at any rate, as near to us as to you. Society, I suppose, may be found in a new place, but we do not care much for society."
"Then it would have been so much the easier."
"But it would have been impossible for us to find new
duties."
"Nonsense," said the Marquis, "humbug; d——d trash."
"If you cannot speak otherwise than like that before your mother, Brotherton, I think you had better leave her," said Lady Sarah, bravely.
"Don't, Sarah,—don't!" said the Marchioness.